XML_Parser XMLCALL
XML_ParserCreateNS(const XML_Char *encodingName, XML_Char nsSep) {
- XML_Char tmp[2];
- *tmp = nsSep;
+ XML_Char tmp[2] = {nsSep, 0};
return XML_ParserCreate_MM(encodingName, NULL, tmp);
}
would be otherwise.
*/
if (parser->m_ns) {
- XML_Char tmp[2];
- *tmp = parser->m_namespaceSeparator;
+ XML_Char tmp[2] = {parser->m_namespaceSeparator, 0};
parser = parserCreate(encodingName, &parser->m_mem, tmp, newDtd);
} else {
parser = parserCreate(encodingName, &parser->m_mem, NULL, newDtd);
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;