[3.5] bpo-34623: Use XML_SetHashSalt in _elementtree (#9933)

* bpo-34623: Use XML_SetHashSalt in _elementtree (GH-9146)

The C accelerated _elementtree module now initializes hash randomization
salt from _Py_HashSecret instead of libexpat's default CPRNG.

Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
https://bugs.python.org/issue34623
(cherry picked from commit cb5778f00ce48631c7140f33ba242496aaf7102b)

Co-authored-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>

diff --git a/Include/pyexpat.h b/Include/pyexpat.h
index 44259bf6d716bab70325f7375b70c5d05c7ad3e8..07020b5dc964cb3abeeb7bd14131dce55acc737a 100644 (file)
--- a/Include/pyexpat.h
+++ b/Include/pyexpat.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 /* note: you must import expat.h before importing this module! */
 
-#define PyExpat_CAPI_MAGIC  "pyexpat.expat_CAPI 1.0"
+#define PyExpat_CAPI_MAGIC  "pyexpat.expat_CAPI 1.1"
 #define PyExpat_CAPSULE_NAME "pyexpat.expat_CAPI"
 
 struct PyExpat_CAPI
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ struct PyExpat_CAPI
     enum XML_Status (*SetEncoding)(XML_Parser parser, const XML_Char *encoding);
     int (*DefaultUnknownEncodingHandler)(
         void *encodingHandlerData, const XML_Char *name, XML_Encoding *info);
+    /* might be none for expat < 2.1.0 */
+    int (*SetHashSalt)(XML_Parser parser, unsigned long hash_salt);
     /* always add new stuff to the end! */
 };
 

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-09-10-16-05-39.bpo-34623.Ua9jMv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-09-10-16-05-39.bpo-34623.Ua9jMv.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..cbaa4b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-09-10-16-05-39.bpo-34623.Ua9jMv.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+CVE-2018-14647: The C accelerated _elementtree module now initializes hash
+randomization salt from _Py_HashSecret instead of libexpat's default CSPRNG.

diff --git a/Modules/_elementtree.c b/Modules/_elementtree.c
index 5dba9f70a94bea4771e5988aeb02679822bd139b..90c6daf64a840ca2c1574069c37173750f8e6a72 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/_elementtree.c
+++ b/Modules/_elementtree.c
@@ -3282,6 +3282,11 @@ _elementtree_XMLParser___init___impl(XMLParserObject *self, PyObject *html,
         PyErr_NoMemory();
         return -1;
     }
+    /* expat < 2.1.0 has no XML_SetHashSalt() */
+    if (EXPAT(SetHashSalt) != NULL) {
+        EXPAT(SetHashSalt)(self->parser,
+                           (unsigned long)_Py_HashSecret.expat.hashsalt);
+    }
 
     if (target) {
         Py_INCREF(target);

diff --git a/Modules/pyexpat.c b/Modules/pyexpat.c
index adc9b6cde859da435df72297f07d918d4c33da34..948ab1b703d6b9fe22fcc11f6e75e56e97733f35 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/pyexpat.c
+++ b/Modules/pyexpat.c
@@ -1882,6 +1882,11 @@ MODULE_INITFUNC(void)
     capi.SetStartDoctypeDeclHandler = XML_SetStartDoctypeDeclHandler;
     capi.SetEncoding = XML_SetEncoding;
     capi.DefaultUnknownEncodingHandler = PyUnknownEncodingHandler;
+#if XML_COMBINED_VERSION >= 20100
+    capi.SetHashSalt = XML_SetHashSalt;
+#else
+    capi.SetHashSalt = NULL;
+#endif
 
     /* export using capsule */
     capi_object = PyCapsule_New(&capi, PyExpat_CAPSULE_NAME, NULL);