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libxslt: denial of service

Package(s):libxslt CVE #(s):CVE-2012-2870 CVE-2012-2871
Created:September 14, 2012 Updated:October 4, 2012
Description:

From the Red Hat advisory:

libxslt 1.1.26 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89, does not properly manage memory, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted XSLT expression that is not properly identified during XPath navigation, related to (1) the xsltCompileLocationPathPattern function in libxslt/pattern.c and (2) the xsltGenerateIdFunction function in libxslt/functions.c. (CVE-2012-2870)

libxml2 2.9.0-rc1 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89, does not properly support a cast of an unspecified variable during handling of XSL transforms, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted document, related to the _xmlNs data structure in include/libxml/tree.h. (CVE-2012-2871)

Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2012:1265-01 2012-09-13
CentOS CESA-2012:1265 2012-09-13
CentOS CESA-2012:1265 2012-09-13
Oracle ELSA-2012-1265 2012-09-14
Oracle ELSA-2012-1265 2012-09-14
Scientific Linux SL-libx-20120914 2012-09-14
Mageia MGASA-2012-0272 2012-09-15
Mageia MGASA-2012-0271 2012-09-15
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1215-1 2012-09-19
Fedora FEDORA-2012-14083 2012-09-26
Fedora FEDORA-2012-14048 2012-09-27
Ubuntu USN-1595-1 2012-10-04
Debian DSA-2555-1 2012-10-05
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:164 2012-10-11
Mandriva MDVSA-2013:047 2013-04-05

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