[ expat-Bugs-1990430 ] Parser crash with specially formatted UTF-8 sequences

Bugs item #1990430, was opened at 2008-06-10 21:45
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Category: www.libexpat.org
Group: Test Required
Status: Open
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
>Private: No
Submitted By: Peter Valchev (petervalchev)
Assigned to: Karl Waclawek (kwaclaw)
Summary: Parser crash with specially formatted UTF-8 sequences

Initial Comment:
I have discovered a way to crash libexpat's xml parser with certain specially formatted UTF-8 sequences.
All applications that link w/ expat and use it to render user-provided XML files are affected. As far as I
see, the issue is not exploitable, just denial of service.

This is the patch that I have come up with, also attached to this email:

+++ lib/xmltok_impl.c 2007-12-21 11:11:42.054417000 -0800
 <at>  <at>  -1745,6 +1745,9  <at>  <at> 
 switch (BYTE_TYPE(enc, ptr)) {
 #define LEAD_CASE(n) \
 case BT_LEAD ## n: \