File libxml2-CVE-2016-3709.patch of Package python-libxml2-python.27012

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File libxml2-CVE-2016-3709.patch of Package python-libxml2-python.27012

From c1ba6f54d32b707ca6d91cb3257ce9de82876b6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer@aevum.de>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 18:32:29 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Do not URI escape in server side includes"

This reverts commit 960f0e275616cadc29671a218d7fb9b69eb35588.

This commit introduced

- an infinite loop, found by OSS-Fuzz, which could be easily fixed.
- an algorithm with quadratic runtime
- a security issue, see
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769760

A better approach is to add an option not to escape URLs at all
which libxml2 should have possibly done in the first place.
---
 HTMLtree.c | 49 +++++++++++--------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

Index: libxml2-2.9.7/HTMLtree.c
===================================================================
--- libxml2-2.9.7.orig/HTMLtree.c
+++ libxml2-2.9.7/HTMLtree.c
@@ -717,49 +717,22 @@ htmlAttrDumpOutput(xmlOutputBufferPtr bu
 		 (!xmlStrcasecmp(cur->name, BAD_CAST "src")) ||
 		 ((!xmlStrcasecmp(cur->name, BAD_CAST "name")) &&
 		  (!xmlStrcasecmp(cur->parent->name, BAD_CAST "a"))))) {
+		xmlChar *escaped;
 		xmlChar *tmp = value;
-		/* xmlURIEscapeStr() escapes '"' so it can be safely used. */
-		xmlBufCCat(buf->buffer, "\"");
 
 		while (IS_BLANK_CH(*tmp)) tmp++;
 
-		/* URI Escape everything, except server side includes. */
-		for ( ; ; ) {
-		    xmlChar *escaped;
-		    xmlChar endChar;
-		    xmlChar *end = NULL;
-		    xmlChar *start = (xmlChar *)xmlStrstr(tmp, BAD_CAST "");
-			if (end != NULL) {
-			    *start = '\0';
-			}
-		    }
-
-		    /* Escape the whole string, or until start (set to '\0'). */
-		    escaped = xmlURIEscapeStr(tmp, BAD_CAST"@/:=?;#%&,+");
-		    if (escaped != NULL) {
-		        xmlBufCat(buf->buffer, escaped);
-		        xmlFree(escaped);
-		    } else {
-		        xmlBufCat(buf->buffer, tmp);
-		    }
-
-		    if (end == NULL) { /* Everything has been written. */
-			break;
-		    }
-
-		    /* Do not escape anything within server side includes. */
-		    *start = '<'; /* Restore the first character of "") */
-		    endChar = *end;
-		    *end = '\0';
-		    xmlBufCat(buf->buffer, start);
-		    *end = endChar;
-		    tmp = end;
+		/*
+		 * the < and > have already been escaped at the entity level
+		 * And doing so here breaks server side includes
+		 */
+		escaped = xmlURIEscapeStr(tmp, BAD_CAST"@/:=?;#%&,+<>");
+		if (escaped != NULL) {
+		    xmlBufWriteQuotedString(buf->buffer, escaped);
+		    xmlFree(escaped);
+		} else {
+		    xmlBufWriteQuotedString(buf->buffer, value);
 		}
-
-		xmlBufCCat(buf->buffer, "\"");
 	    } else {
 		xmlBufWriteQuotedString(buf->buffer, value);
 	    }

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