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Release 2.2.5 Tue October 31 2017 Bug fixes: #8 If the parser runs out of memory, make sure its internal state reflects the memory it actually has, not the memory it wanted to have. #11 The default handler wasn't being called when it should for a SYSTEM or PUBLIC doctype if an entity declaration handler was registered. #137 #138 Fix a case of mistakenly reported parsing success where XML_StopParser was called from an element handler #162 Function XML_ErrorString was returning NULL rather than a message for code XML_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT introduced with release 2.2.1 Other changes: #106 xmlwf: Add argument -N adding notation declarations #75 #106 Test suite: Resolve expected failure cases where xmlwf output was incomplete #127 Windows: Fix test suite compilation #126 #127 Windows: Fix compilation for Visual Studio 2012 #33 #132 tests: Mass-fix compilation for XML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T #129 examples: Fix compilation for XML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T #130 benchmark: Fix compilation for XML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T #144 xmlwf: Fix compilation for XML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T; still needs Windows or MinGW for 2-byte wchar_t #9 Address two Clang Static Analyzer false positives #59 Resolve troublesome macros hiding parser struct membership and dereferencing that pointer #6 Resolve superfluous internal malloc/realloc switch #153 #155 Improve docbook2x-man detection #160 Undefine NDEBUG in the test suite (rather than rejecting it) #161 Address compiler warnings Version info bumped from 7:6:6 to 7:7:6 Special thanks to: Benbuck Nason Hans Wennborg José Gutiérrez de la Concha Pedro Monreal Gonzalez Rhodri James Rolf Ade Stephen Groat and Core Infrastructure Initiative Release 2.2.4 Sat August 19 2017 Bug fixes: #115 Fix copying of partial characters for UTF-8 input Other changes: #109 Fix "make check" for non-x86 architectures that default to unsigned type char (-128..127 rather than 0..255) #109 coverage.sh: Cover -funsigned-char Autotools: Introduce --without-xmlwf argument #65 Autotools: Replace handwritten Makefile with GNU Automake #43 CMake: Auto-detect high quality entropy extractors, add new option USE_libbsd=ON to use arc4random_buf of libbsd #74 CMake: Add -fno-strict-aliasing only where supported #114 CMake: Always honor manually set BUILD_* options #114 CMake: Compile man page if docbook2x-man is available, only #117 Include file tests/xmltest.log.expected in source tarball (required for "make run-xmltest") #117 Include (existing) Visual Studio 2013 files in source tarball Improve test suite error output #111 Fix some typos in documentation Version info bumped from 7:5:6 to 7:6:6 Special thanks to: Jakub Wilk Joe Orton Lin Tian Rolf Eike Beer Release 2.2.3 Wed August 2 2017 Security fixes: #82 CVE-2017-11742 -- Windows: Fix DLL hijacking vulnerability using Steve Holme's LoadLibrary wrapper for/of cURL Bug fixes: #85 Fix a dangling pointer issue related to realloc Other changes: Increase code coverage #91 Linux: Allow getrandom to fail if nonblocking pool has not yet been initialized and read /dev/urandom then, instead. This is in line with what recent Python does. #81 Pre-10.7/Lion macOS: Support entropy from arc4random #86 Check that a UTF-16 encoding in an XML declaration has the right endianness #4 #5 #7 Recover correctly when some reallocations fail Repair "./configure && make" for systems without any provider of high quality entropy and try reading /dev/urandom on those Ensure that user-defined character encodings have converter functions when they are needed Fix mis-leading description of argument -c in xmlwf.1 Rely on macro HAVE_ARC4RANDOM_BUF (rather than __CloudABI__) for CloudABI #100 Fix use of SIPHASH_MAIN in siphash.h #23 Test suite: Fix memory leaks Version info bumped from 7:4:6 to 7:5:6 Special thanks to: Chanho Park Joe Orton Pascal Cuoq Rhodri James Simon McVittie Vadim Zeitlin Viktor Szakats and Core Infrastructure Initiative Release 2.2.2 Wed July 12 2017 Security fixes: #43 Protect against compilation without any source of high quality entropy enabled, e.g. with CMake build system; commit ff0207e6076e9828e536b8d9cd45c9c92069b895 #60 Windows with _UNICODE: Unintended use of LoadLibraryW with a non-wide string resulted in failure to load advapi32.dll and degradation in quality of used entropy when compiled with _UNICODE for Windows; you can launch existing binaries with EXPAT_ENTROPY_DEBUG=1 in the environment to inspect the quality of entropy used during runtime; commits * 95b95032f907ef1cd17ee7a9a1768010a825d61d * 73a5a2e9c081f49f2d775cf7ced864158b68dc80 [MOX-006] Fix non-NULL parser parameter validation in XML_Parse; resulted in NULL dereference, previously; commit ac256dafdffc9622ab0dc2c62fcecb0dfcfa71fe Bug fixes: #69 Fix improper use of unsigned long long integer literals Other changes: #73 Start requiring a C99 compiler #49 Fix "==" Bashism in configure script #50 Fix too eager getrandom detection for Debian GNU/kFreeBSD #52 and macOS #51 Address lack of stdint.h in Visual Studio 2003 to 2008 #58 Address compile warnings #68 Fix "./buildconf.sh && ./configure" for some versions of Dash for /bin/sh #72 CMake: Ease use of Expat in context of a parent project with multiple CMakeLists.txt files #72 CMake: Resolve mistaken executable permissions #76 Address compile warning with -DNDEBUG (not recommended!) #77 Address compile warning about macro redefinition Special thanks to: Alexander Bluhm Ben Boeckel Cătălin Răceanu Kerin Millar László Böszörményi S. P. Zeidler Segev Finer Václav Slavík Victor Stinner Viktor Szakats and Radically Open Security Release 2.2.1 Sat June 17 2017 Security fixes: CVE-2017-9233 -- External entity infinite loop DoS Details: https://libexpat.github.io/doc/cve-2017-9233/ Commit c4bf96bb51dd2a1b0e185374362ee136fe2c9d7f [MOX-002] CVE-2016-9063 -- Detect integer overflow; commit d4f735b88d9932bd5039df2335eefdd0723dbe20 (Fixed version of existing downstream patches!) (SF.net) #539 Fix regression from fix to CVE-2016-0718 cutting off longer tag names; commits * 896b6c1fd3b842f377d1b62135dccf0a579cf65d * af507cef2c93cb8d40062a0abe43a4f4e9158fb2 #16 * 0dbbf43fdb20f593ddf4fa1ff67288000dd4a7fd #25 More integer overflow detection (function poolGrow); commits * 810b74e4703dcfdd8f404e3cb177d44684775143 * 44178553f3539ce69d34abee77a05e879a7982ac [MOX-002] Detect overflow from len=INT_MAX call to XML_Parse; commits * 4be2cb5afcc018d996f34bbbce6374b7befad47f * 7e5b71b748491b6e459e5c9a1d090820f94544d8 [MOX-005] #30 Use high quality entropy for hash initialization: * arc4random_buf on BSD, systems with libbsd (when configured with --with-libbsd), CloudABI * RtlGenRandom on Windows XP / Server 2003 and later * getrandom on Linux 3.17+ In a way, that's still part of CVE-2016-5300. https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/30/commits [MOX-005] For the low quality entropy extraction fallback code, the parser instance address can no longer leak, commit 04ad658bd3079dd15cb60fc67087900f0ff4b083 [MOX-003] Prevent use of uninitialised variable; commit [MOX-004] a4dc944f37b664a3ca7199c624a98ee37babdb4b Add missing parameter validation to public API functions and dedicated error code XML_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT: [MOX-006] * NULL checks; commits * d37f74b2b7149a3a95a680c4c4cd2a451a51d60a (merge/many) * 9ed727064b675b7180c98cb3d4f75efba6966681 * 6a747c837c50114dfa413994e07c0ba477be4534 * Negative length (XML_Parse); commit [MOX-002] 70db8d2538a10f4c022655d6895e4c3e78692e7f [MOX-001] #35 Change hash algorithm to William Ahern's version of SipHash to go further with fixing CVE-2012-0876. https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/pull/39/commits Bug fixes: #32 Fix sharing of hash salt across parsers; relevant where XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate is called prior to XML_Parse, in particular (e.g. FBReader) #28 xmlwf: Auto-disable use of memory-mapping (and parsing as a single chunk) for files larger than ~1 GB (2^30 bytes) rather than failing with error "out of memory" #3 Fix double free after malloc failure in DTD code; commit 7ae9c3d3af433cd4defe95234eae7dc8ed15637f #17 Fix memory leak on parser error for unbound XML attribute prefix with new namespaces defined in the same tag; found by Google's OSS-Fuzz; commits * 16f87daae5a16132e479e4f71862128c7a915c73 * b47dbc9745932c160893d433220e462bd605f8cd xmlwf on Windows: Add missing calls to CloseHandle New features: #30 Introduced environment switch EXPAT_ENTROPY_DEBUG=1 for runtime debugging of entropy extraction Other changes: Increase code coverage #33 Reject use of XML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T with sizeof(wchar_t) != 2; XML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T was never meant to be used outside of Windows; 4-byte wchar_t is common on Linux (SF.net) #538 Start using -fno-strict-aliasing (SF.net) #540 Support compilation against cloudlibc of CloudABI Allow MinGW cross-compilation (SF.net) #534 CMake: Introduce option "BUILD_doc" (enabled by default) to bypass compilation of the xmlwf.1 man page (SF.net) pr2 CMake: Introduce option "INSTALL" (enabled by default) to bypass installation of expat files CMake: Fix ninja support Autotools: Add parameters --enable-xml-context [COUNT] and --disable-xml-context; default of context of 1024 bytes enabled unchanged #14 Drop AmigaOS 4.x code and includes #14 Drop ancient build systems: * Borland C++ Builder * OpenVMS * Open Watcom * Visual Studio 6.0 * Pre-X Mac OS (MPW Makefile) If you happen to rely on some of these, please get in touch for joining with maintenance. #10 Move from WIN32 to _WIN32 #13 Fix "make run-xmltest" order instability Address compile warnings Bump version info from 7:2:6 to 7:3:6 Add AUTHORS file Infrastructure: #1 Migrate from SourceForge to GitHub (except downloads): https://github.com/libexpat/ #1 Re-create http://libexpat.org/ project website Start utilizing Travis CI Special thanks to: Andy Wang Don Lewis Ed Schouten Karl Waclawek Pascal Cuoq Rhodri James Sergei Nikulov Tobias Taschner Viktor Szakats and Core Infrastructure Initiative Mozilla Foundation (MOSS Track 3: Secure Open Source) Radically Open Security Release 2.2.0 Tue June 21 2016 Security fixes: #537 CVE-2016-0718 -- Fix crash on malformed input CVE-2016-4472 -- Improve insufficient fix to CVE-2015-1283 / CVE-2015-2716 introduced with Expat 2.1.1 #499 CVE-2016-5300 -- Use more entropy for hash initialization than the original fix to CVE-2012-0876 #519 CVE-2012-6702 -- Resolve troublesome internal call to srand that was introduced with Expat 2.1.0 when addressing CVE-2012-0876 (issue #496) Bug fixes: Fix uninitialized reads of size 1 (e.g. in little2_updatePosition) Fix detection of UTF-8 character boundaries Other changes: #532 Fix compilation for Visual Studio 2010 (keyword "C99") Autotools: Resolve use of "$<" to better support bmake Autotools: Add QA script "qa.sh" (and make target "qa") Autotools: Respect CXXFLAGS if given Autotools: Fix "make run-xmltest" Autotools: Have "make run-xmltest" check for expected output p90 CMake: Fix static build (BUILD_shared=OFF) on Windows #536 CMake: Add soversion, support -DNO_SONAME=yes to bypass #323 CMake: Add suffix "d" to differentiate debug from release CMake: Define WIN32 with CMake on Windows Annotate memory allocators for GCC Address all currently known compile warnings Make sure that API symbols remain visible despite -fvisibility=hidden Remove executable flag from source files Resolve COMPILED_FROM_DSP in favor of WIN32 Special thanks to: Björn Lindahl Christian Heimes Cristian Rodríguez Daniel Krügler Gustavo Grieco Karl Waclawek László Böszörményi Marco Grassi Pascal Cuoq Sergei Nikulov Thomas Beutlich Warren Young Yann Droneaud Release 2.1.1 Sat March 12 2016 Security fixes: #582: CVE-2015-1283 - Multiple integer overflows in XML_GetBuffer Bug fixes: #502: Fix potential null pointer dereference #520: Symbol XML_SetHashSalt was not exported Output of "xmlwf -h" was incomplete Other changes: #503: Document behavior of calling XML_SetHashSalt with salt 0 Minor improvements to man page xmlwf(1) Improvements to the experimental CMake build system libtool now invoked with --verbose Release 2.1.0 Sat March 24 2012 - Security fixes: #2958794: CVE-2012-1148 - Memory leak in poolGrow. #2895533: CVE-2012-1147 - Resource leak in readfilemap.c. #3496608: CVE-2012-0876 - Hash DOS attack. #2894085: CVE-2009-3560 - Buffer over-read and crash in big2_toUtf8(). #1990430: CVE-2009-3720 - Parser crash with special UTF-8 sequences. - Bug Fixes: #1742315: Harmful XML_ParserCreateNS suggestion. #1785430: Expat build fails on linux-amd64 with gcc version>=4.1 -O3. #1983953, 2517952, 2517962, 2649838: Build modifications using autoreconf instead of buildconf.sh. #2815947, #2884086: OBJEXT and EXEEXT support while building. #2517938: xmlwf should return non-zero exit status if not well-formed. #2517946: Wrong statement about XMLDecl in xmlwf.1 and xmlwf.sgml. #2855609: Dangling positionPtr after error. #2990652: CMake support. #3010819: UNEXPECTED_STATE with a trailing "%" in entity value. #3206497: Uninitialized memory returned from XML_Parse. #3287849: make check fails on mingw-w64. - Patches: #1749198: pkg-config support. #3010222: Fix for bug #3010819. #3312568: CMake support. #3446384: Report byte offsets for attr names and values. - New Features / API changes: Added new API member XML_SetHashSalt() that allows setting an initial value (salt) for hash calculations. This is part of the fix for bug #3496608 to randomize hash parameters. When compiled with XML_ATTR_INFO defined, adds new API member XML_GetAttributeInfo() that allows retrieving the byte offsets for attribute names and values (patch #3446384). Added CMake build system. See bug #2990652 and patch #3312568. Added run-benchmark target to Makefile.in - relies on testdata module present in the same relative location as in the repository. Release 2.0.1 Tue June 5 2007 - Fixed bugs #1515266, #1515600: The character data handler's calling of XML_StopParser() was not handled properly; if the parser was stopped and the handler set to NULL, the parser would segfault. - Fixed bug #1690883: Expat failed on EBCDIC systems as it assumed some character constants to be ASCII encoded. - Minor cleanups of the test harness. - Fixed xmlwf bug #1513566: "out of memory" error on file size zero. - Fixed outline.c bug #1543233: missing a final XML_ParserFree() call. - Fixes and improvements for Windows platform: bugs #1409451, #1476160, #1548182, #1602769, #1717322. - Build fixes for various platforms: HP-UX, Tru64, Solaris 9: patch #1437840, bug #1196180. All Unix: #1554618 (refreshed config.sub/config.guess). #1490371, #1613457: support both, DESTDIR and INSTALL_ROOT, without relying on GNU-Make specific features. #1647805: Patched configure.in to work better with Intel compiler. - Fixes to Makefile.in to have make check work correctly: bugs #1408143, #1535603, #1536684. - Added Open Watcom support: patch #1523242. Release 2.0.0 Wed Jan 11 2006 - We no longer use the "check" library for C unit testing; we always use the (partial) internal implementation of the API. - Report XML_NS setting via XML_GetFeatureList(). - Fixed headers for use from C++. - XML_GetCurrentLineNumber() and XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber() now return unsigned integers. - Added XML_LARGE_SIZE switch to enable 64-bit integers for byte indexes and line/column numbers. - Updated to use libtool 1.5.22 (the most recent). - Added support for AmigaOS. - Some mostly minor bug fixes. SF issues include: #1006708, #1021776, #1023646, #1114960, #1156398, #1221160, #1271642. Release 1.95.8 Fri Jul 23 2004 - Major new feature: suspend/resume. Handlers can now request that a parse be suspended for later resumption or aborted altogether. See "Temporarily Stopping Parsing" in the documentation for more details. - Some mostly minor bug fixes, but compilation should no longer generate warnings on most platforms. SF issues include: #827319, #840173, #846309, #888329, #896188, #923913, #928113, #961698, #985192. Release 1.95.7 Mon Oct 20 2003 - Fixed enum XML_Status issue (reported on SourceForge many times), so compilers that are properly picky will be happy. - Introduced an XMLCALL macro to control the calling convention used by the Expat API; this macro should be used to annotate prototypes and definitions of callback implementations in code compiled with a calling convention other than the default convention for the host platform. - Improved ability to build without the configure-generated expat_config.h header. This is useful for applications which embed Expat rather than linking in the library. - Fixed a variety of bugs: see SF issues #458907, #609603, #676844, #679754, #692878, #692964, #695401, #699323, #699487, #820946. - Improved hash table lookups. - Added more regression tests and improved documentation. Release 1.95.6 Tue Jan 28 2003 - Added XML_FreeContentModel(). - Added XML_MemMalloc(), XML_MemRealloc(), XML_MemFree(). - Fixed a variety of bugs: see SF issues #615606, #616863, #618199, #653180, #673791. - Enhanced the regression test suite. - Man page improvements: includes SF issue #632146. Release 1.95.5 Fri Sep 6 2002 - Added XML_UseForeignDTD() for improved SAX2 support. - Added XML_GetFeatureList(). - Defined XML_Bool type and the values XML_TRUE and XML_FALSE. - Use an incomplete struct instead of a void* for the parser (may not retain). - Fixed UTF-8 decoding bug that caused legal UTF-8 to be rejected. - Finally fixed bug where default handler would report DTD events that were already handled by another handler. Initial patch contributed by Darryl Miles. - Removed unnecessary DllMain() function that caused static linking into a DLL to be difficult. - Added VC++ projects for building static libraries. - Reduced line-length for all source code and headers to be no longer than 80 characters, to help with AS/400 support. - Reduced memory copying during parsing (SF patch #600964). - Fixed a variety of bugs: see SF issues #580793, #434664, #483514, #580503, #581069, #584041, #584183, #584832, #585537, #596555, #596678, #598352, #598944, #599715, #600479, #600971. Release 1.95.4 Fri Jul 12 2002 - Added support for VMS, contributed by Craig Berry. See vms/README.vms for more information. - Added Mac OS (classic) support, with a makefile for MPW, contributed by Thomas Wegner and Daryle Walker. - Added Borland C++ Builder 5 / BCC 5.5 support, contributed by Patrick McConnell (SF patch #538032). - Fixed a variety of bugs: see SF issues #441449, #563184, #564342, #566334, #566901, #569461, #570263, #575168, #579196. - Made skippedEntityHandler conform to SAX2 (see source comment) - Re-implemented WFC: Entity Declared from XML 1.0 spec and added a new error "entity declared in parameter entity": see SF bug report #569461 and SF patch #578161 - Re-implemented section 5.1 from XML 1.0 spec: see SF bug report #570263 and SF patch #578161 Release 1.95.3 Mon Jun 3 2002 - Added a project to the MSVC workspace to create a wchar_t version of the library; the DLLs are named libexpatw.dll. - Changed the name of the Windows DLLs from expat.dll to libexpat.dll; this fixes SF bug #432456. - Added the XML_ParserReset() API function. - Fixed XML_SetReturnNSTriplet() to work for element names. - Made the XML_UNICODE builds usable (thanks, Karl!). - Allow xmlwf to read from standard input. - Install a man page for xmlwf on Unix systems. - Fixed many bugs; see SF bug reports #231864, #461380, #464837, #466885, #469226, #477667, #484419, #487840, #494749, #496505, #547350. Other bugs which we can't test as easily may also have been fixed, especially in the area of build support. Release 1.95.2 Fri Jul 27 2001 - More changes to make MSVC happy with the build; add a single workspace to support both the library and xmlwf application. - Added a Windows installer for Windows users; includes xmlwf.exe. - Added compile-time constants that can be used to determine the Expat version - Removed a lot of GNU-specific dependencies to aide portability among the various Unix flavors. - Fix the UTF-8 BOM bug. - Cleaned up warning messages for several compilers. - Added the -Wall, -Wstrict-prototypes options for GCC. Release 1.95.1 Sun Oct 22 15:11:36 EDT 2000 - Changes to get expat to build under Microsoft compiler - Removed all aborts and instead return an UNEXPECTED_STATE error. - Fixed a bug where a stray '%' in an entity value would cause an abort. - Defined XML_SetEndNamespaceDeclHandler. Thanks to Darryl Miles for finding this oversight. - Changed default patterns in lib/Makefile.in to fit non-GNU makes Thanks to robin@unrated.net for reporting and providing an account to test on. - The reference had the wrong label for XML_SetStartNamespaceDecl. Reported by an anonymous user. Release 1.95.0 Fri Sep 29 2000 - XML_ParserCreate_MM Allows you to set a memory management suite to replace the standard malloc,realloc, and free. - XML_SetReturnNSTriplet If you turn this feature on when namespace processing is in effect, then qualified, prefixed element and attribute names are returned as "uri|name|prefix" where '|' is whatever separator character is used in namespace processing. - Merged in features from perl-expat o XML_SetElementDeclHandler o XML_SetAttlistDeclHandler o XML_SetXmlDeclHandler o XML_SetEntityDeclHandler o StartDoctypeDeclHandler takes 3 additional parameters: sysid, pubid, has_internal_subset o Many paired handler setters (like XML_SetElementHandler) now have corresponding individual handler setters o XML_GetInputContext for getting the input context of the current parse position. - Added reference material - Packaged into a distribution that builds a sharable library