National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2870

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/pattern.c?r1=118654&r2=150123

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/pattern.c?r1=118654&r2=150123

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/functions.c?r1=75684&r2=149998

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/functions.c?r1=75684&r2=149998

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10830177

Hyperlink:https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10830177

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10823168

Hyperlink:https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10823168

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2012:164

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:164

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2555

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2555

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/pattern.c?view=log

Hyperlink:http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/pattern.c?view=log

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/functions.c?view=log

Hyperlink:http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/functions.c?view=log

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 50838

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/50838

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1215

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00030.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/stable-channel-update_30.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/stable-channel-update_30.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140368

Hyperlink:http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140368

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138672

Hyperlink:http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138672