CVE-2012-2870
Published: 31 August 2012
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.
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jdstrand | mdeslaur provided the update for libxslt |
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References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2870
- https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10830177
- https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10823168
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/stable-channel-update_30.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1265.html
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-1595-1
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian