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[meta-oe,kirkstone,07/10] exiv2: patch CVE-2021-32617

Message ID 20251122193128.1703871-7-skandigraun@gmail.com
State New
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Series [meta-webserver,kirkstone,01/10] monkey: Update status for CVE-2013-2183 | expand

Commit Message

Gyorgy Sarvari Nov. 22, 2025, 7:31 p.m. UTC
Details: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32617

Pick the patch from the PR that's mentioned by the nvd report.

Signed-off-by: Gyorgy Sarvari <skandigraun@gmail.com>
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 .../exiv2/exiv2/CVE-2021-32617.patch          | 129 ++++++++++++++++++
 meta-oe/recipes-support/exiv2/exiv2_0.27.3.bb |   1 +
 2 files changed, 130 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta-oe/recipes-support/exiv2/exiv2/CVE-2021-32617.patch
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diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/exiv2/exiv2/CVE-2021-32617.patch b/meta-oe/recipes-support/exiv2/exiv2/CVE-2021-32617.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b34554e86b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/exiv2/exiv2/CVE-2021-32617.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ 
+From 8353d035bc2e0a0500251168a350d0252900386b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Kevin Backhouse <kevinbackhouse@github.com>
+Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 15:05:08 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix quadratic complexity performance bug.
+
+CVE: CVE-2021-32617
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/commit/c261fbaa2567687eec6a595d3016212fd6ae648d]
+Signed-off-by: Gyorgy Sarvari <skandigraun@gmail.com>
+---
+ xmpsdk/src/XMPMeta-Parse.cpp | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
+ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/xmpsdk/src/XMPMeta-Parse.cpp b/xmpsdk/src/XMPMeta-Parse.cpp
+index 9f66fe8..6959693 100644
+--- a/xmpsdk/src/XMPMeta-Parse.cpp
++++ b/xmpsdk/src/XMPMeta-Parse.cpp
+@@ -976,12 +976,26 @@ ProcessUTF8Portion ( XMLParserAdapter * xmlParser,
+ {
+ 	const XMP_Uns8 * bufEnd = buffer + length;
+ 	
+-	const XMP_Uns8 * spanStart = buffer;
+ 	const XMP_Uns8 * spanEnd;
++
++	// `buffer` is copied into this std::string. If `buffer` only
++	// contains valid UTF-8 and no escape characters, then the copy
++	// will be identical to the original, but invalid characters are
++	// replaced - usually with a space character.  This std::string was
++	// added as a performance fix for:
++	// https://github.com/Exiv2/exiv2/security/advisories/GHSA-w8mv-g8qq-36mj
++	// Previously, the code was repeatedly calling
++	// `xmlParser->ParseBuffer()`, which turned out to have quadratic
++	// complexity, because expat kept reparsing the entire string from
++	// the beginning.
++	std::string copy;
+ 		
+-	for ( spanEnd = spanStart; spanEnd < bufEnd; ++spanEnd ) {
++	for ( spanEnd = buffer; spanEnd < bufEnd; ++spanEnd ) {
+ 
+-		if ( (0x20 <= *spanEnd) && (*spanEnd <= 0x7E) && (*spanEnd != '&') ) continue;	// A regular ASCII character.
++		if ( (0x20 <= *spanEnd) && (*spanEnd <= 0x7E) && (*spanEnd != '&') ) {
++			copy.push_back(*spanEnd);
++			continue;	// A regular ASCII character.
++		}
+ 
+ 		if ( *spanEnd >= 0x80 ) {
+ 		
+@@ -992,21 +1006,20 @@ ProcessUTF8Portion ( XMLParserAdapter * xmlParser,
+ 			if ( uniLen > 0 ) {
+ 
+ 				// A valid UTF-8 character, keep it as-is.
++				copy.append((const char*)spanEnd, uniLen);
+ 				spanEnd += uniLen - 1;	// ! The loop increment will put back the +1.
+ 
+ 			} else if ( (uniLen < 0) && (! last) ) {
+ 
+ 				// Have a partial UTF-8 character at the end of the buffer and more input coming.
+-				xmlParser->ParseBuffer ( spanStart, (spanEnd - spanStart), false );
++				xmlParser->ParseBuffer ( copy.c_str(), copy.size(), false );
+ 				return (spanEnd - buffer);
+ 
+ 			} else {
+ 
+ 				// Not a valid UTF-8 sequence. Replace the first byte with the Latin-1 equivalent.
+-				xmlParser->ParseBuffer ( spanStart, (spanEnd - spanStart), false );
+ 				const char * replacement = kReplaceLatin1 [ *spanEnd - 0x80 ];
+-				xmlParser->ParseBuffer ( replacement, strlen ( replacement ), false );
+-				spanStart = spanEnd + 1;	// ! The loop increment will do "spanEnd = spanStart".
++				copy.append ( replacement );
+ 
+ 			}
+ 		
+@@ -1014,11 +1027,12 @@ ProcessUTF8Portion ( XMLParserAdapter * xmlParser,
+ 
+ 			// Replace ASCII controls other than tab, LF, and CR with a space.
+ 
+-			if ( (*spanEnd == kTab) || (*spanEnd == kLF) || (*spanEnd == kCR) ) continue;
++			if ( (*spanEnd == kTab) || (*spanEnd == kLF) || (*spanEnd == kCR) ) {
++				copy.push_back(*spanEnd);
++				continue;
++			}
+ 
+-			xmlParser->ParseBuffer ( spanStart, (spanEnd - spanStart), false );
+-			xmlParser->ParseBuffer ( " ", 1, false );
+-			spanStart = spanEnd + 1;	// ! The loop increment will do "spanEnd = spanStart".
++			copy.push_back(' ');
+ 		
+ 		} else {
+ 		
+@@ -1030,18 +1044,21 @@ ProcessUTF8Portion ( XMLParserAdapter * xmlParser,
+ 			if ( escLen < 0 ) {
+ 
+ 				// Have a partial numeric escape in this buffer, wait for more input.
+-				if ( last ) continue;	// No more buffers, not an escape, absorb as normal input.
+-				xmlParser->ParseBuffer ( spanStart, (spanEnd - spanStart), false );
++				if ( last ) {
++					copy.push_back('&');
++					continue;	// No more buffers, not an escape, absorb as normal input.
++				}
++				xmlParser->ParseBuffer ( copy.c_str(), copy.size(), false );
+ 				return (spanEnd - buffer);
+ 
+ 			} else if ( escLen > 0 ) {
+ 
+ 				// Have a complete numeric escape to replace.
+-				xmlParser->ParseBuffer ( spanStart, (spanEnd - spanStart), false );
+-				xmlParser->ParseBuffer ( " ", 1, false );
+-				spanStart = spanEnd + escLen;
+-				spanEnd = spanStart - 1;	// ! The loop continuation will increment spanEnd!
++				copy.push_back(' ');
++				spanEnd = spanEnd + escLen - 1;	// ! The loop continuation will increment spanEnd!
+ 
++			} else {
++				copy.push_back('&');
+ 			}
+ 
+ 		}
+@@ -1049,10 +1066,8 @@ ProcessUTF8Portion ( XMLParserAdapter * xmlParser,
+ 	}
+ 	
+ 	XMP_Assert ( spanEnd == bufEnd );
+-
+-	if ( spanStart < bufEnd ) xmlParser->ParseBuffer ( spanStart, (spanEnd - spanStart), false );
+-	if ( last ) xmlParser->ParseBuffer ( " ", 1, true );
+-	
++	copy.push_back(' ');
++	xmlParser->ParseBuffer ( copy.c_str(), copy.size(), true );
+ 	return length;
+ 
+ }	// ProcessUTF8Portion
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/exiv2/exiv2_0.27.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/exiv2/exiv2_0.27.3.bb
index c8c5edbed4..389d8da921 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/exiv2/exiv2_0.27.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/exiv2/exiv2_0.27.3.bb
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@  SRC_URI = "https://github.com/Exiv2/${BPN}/releases/download/v${PV}/${BP}-Source
            file://CVE-2021-29473.patch \
            file://CVE-2021-3482.patch \
            file://CVE-2021-29623.patch \
+           file://CVE-2021-32617.patch \
            "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "a79f5613812aa21755d578a297874fb59a85101e793edc64ec2c6bd994e3e778"