Re: Potential NULL pointer dereference in xmlregexp.c

Nick Wellnhofer <[email protected]> Tue, 5 Mar 2019 15:25:42 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.lib.xml.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 04/03/2019 20:37, Shaobo He via xml wrote:
> I'm Shaobo He, a graduate student at University of Utah. I'm running a static 
> analysis tool on libxml2 and noticed there may be a NULL pointer dereference 
> in function `xmlRegexpIsDeterminist`. Basically, function `xmlNewAutomata` can 
> return a NULL pointer when malloc fails. Please let me know if it makes sense 
> or not.

Thanks for the report. Fixed here:

     https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/09797c13

Nick