DRAFT: MGMT-16765: Mitigation of CVE-2024-25062

[paul-maidment]

This works by replacing a vulnerable version of libxml with one that has been built from sources. However, this does not remove the registration of the vulnerable version from DNF and is likely to lead to false positives.

Putting this here as a prototype in any case.

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• Bug fix
• Tests
• Documentation
• CI/CD

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• Cloud
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• Reviewer's test appreciated
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• Manual (Elaborate on how it was tested)
• No tests needed

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• Relevant issues have been associated (see CONTRIBUTING guide)
• This change does not require a documentation update (docstring, docs, README, etc)
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• Is there a bug required (and linked) for this change?
• Should this PR be backported?

[openshift-ci-robot]

@paul-maidment: This pull request references MGMT-16765 which is a valid jira issue.

Warning: The referenced jira issue has an invalid target version for the target branch this PR targets: expected the bug to target the "4.16.0" version, but no target version was set.

In response to this:

This works by replacing a vulnerable version of libxml with one that has been built from sources. However, this does not remove the registration of the vulnerable version from DNF and is likely to lead to false positives.

Putting this here as a prototype in any case.

List all the issues related to this PR

• New Feature
• Enhancement
• Bug fix
• Tests
• Documentation
• CI/CD

What environments does this code impact?

• Automation (CI, tools, etc)
• Cloud
• Operator Managed Deployments
• None

How was this code tested?

• assisted-test-infra environment
• dev-scripts environment
• Reviewer's test appreciated
• Waiting for CI to do a full test run
• Manual (Elaborate on how it was tested)
• No tests needed

Checklist

• Title and description added to both, commit and PR.
• Relevant issues have been associated (see CONTRIBUTING guide)
• This change does not require a documentation update (docstring, docs, README, etc)
• Does this change include unit-tests (note that code changes require unit-tests)

Reviewers Checklist

• Are the title and description (in both PR and commit) meaningful and clear?
• Is there a bug required (and linked) for this change?
• Should this PR be backported?

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