lib: Protect against malicious namespace declarations (CVE-2022-25236)

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/expat/lib/xmlparse.c b/expat/lib/xmlparse.c
index c768f856..a3aef88c 100644
--- a/expat/lib/xmlparse.c
+++ b/expat/lib/xmlparse.c
@@ -3754,6 +3754,17 @@ addBinding(XML_Parser parser, PREFIX *prefix, const ATTRIBUTE_ID *attId,
     if (! mustBeXML && isXMLNS
         && (len > xmlnsLen || uri[len] != xmlnsNamespace[len]))
       isXMLNS = XML_FALSE;
+
+    // NOTE: While Expat does not validate namespace URIs against RFC 3986,
+    //       we have to at least make sure that the XML processor on top of
+    //       Expat (that is splitting tag names by namespace separator into
+    //       2- or 3-tuples (uri-local or uri-local-prefix)) cannot be confused
+    //       by an attacker putting additional namespace separator characters
+    //       into namespace declarations.  That would be ambiguous and not to
+    //       be expected.
+    if (parser->m_ns && (uri[len] == parser->m_namespaceSeparator)) {
+      return XML_ERROR_SYNTAX;
+    }
   }
   isXML = isXML && len == xmlLen;
   isXMLNS = isXMLNS && len == xmlnsLen;