Vulnerability CVE-2008-2935

Vulnerability CVE-2008-2935

Published: 2008-08-01 Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the rc4 (1) encryption (aka exsltCryptoRc4EncryptFunction) and (2) decryption (aka exsltCryptoRc4DecryptFunction) functions in crypto.c in libexslt in libxslt 1.1.8 through 1.1.24 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XML file containing a long string as "an argument in the XSL input."

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
High	libxslt heap overflow	Andrea Barisani	02.08.2008

Type:

CWE-119

(Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10	6.4/10	10/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	Low	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Partial	Partial	Partial

Affected software
Xmlsoft -> Libxslt

References:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-06.xml

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4078

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0306

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1624

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:160

http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-009.html

http://www.ocert.org/patches/exslt_crypt.patch

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0649.html

http://www.scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2008-003.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494976/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495018/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497829/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30467

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020596

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-633-1

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2266/references

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44141

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10827

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00092.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00118.html

Vulnerability CVE-2008-2935

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

High

libxslt heap overflow

CWE-119

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

7.5/10

6.4/10

10/10

Remote

Low

No required

Partial

Partial

Partial

Affected software

References: