[ expat-Bugs-3524730 ] potential null pointer dereference

Bugs item #3524730, was opened at 2012-05-08 06:56
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Category: None
Group: Test Required
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: tomaszmi (tomaszmi)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: potential null pointer dereference

Initial Comment:
Expat version 2.1.0

There may be a potential null pointer dereference in the xmlparse.c file, line 2914. The lookup function may return NULL and this case is not checked before the line #2914. I'm not familiar with expat details, however in general if such case is not possible, it would be good to make sure the program will be terminated/aborted, for instance using assert:
assert(id);

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Comment By: Sandeep L Hegde (sahegde1)
Date: 2012-07-23 22:57

Message:
I would like to work on this bug. Please assign it to me.

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Comment By: tomaszmi (tomaszmi)
Date: 2012-05-08 07:51

Message:
The similar issue is in the xmlparse.c, line #5478. The id->prefix may be
set to null however in the next line the pointer is dereferenced without
any check.

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