Security update for xml-security-c

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Sun Jul 26 08:05:42 UTC 2009


* Russ Allbery:

> Scott Cantor <cantor.2 at osu.edu> writes:
>> Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>>> Hm, that's a good question.  I can trace the value down atoi run on the
>>> result of an XML parse, but at that point I get lost in the code and
>>> can't figure out if negative numbers would have been rejected somewhere
>>> else.
>
>> The data type is broken in the surrounding code, which I couldn't fix in
>> this patch, but the parameter signature in the functions that actually
>> use it is an unsigned int.
>
> Ah, yes, that should make it fine.  Any negative values will turn into
> very large positive values, which avoids the problem range.

Good, thanks for the clarification.

Russ, could you upload this, please?  (Don't forget to build with
-sa. 8-)



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