Vulnerability CVE-2012-6139


Published: 2013-04-12   Modified: 2013-04-13

Description:
libxslt before 1.1.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an (1) empty match attribute in a XSL key to the xsltAddKey function in keys.c or (2) uninitialized variable to the xsltDocumentFunction function in functions.c.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
libxslt \"xsltDocumentFunction()\" and \"xsltAddKey()\" Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Agostino Sarubbo
25.03.2013

Type:

CWE-Other

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Xmlsoft -> Libxslt 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 

 References:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102065.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00028.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2654
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:141
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028338
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1784-1
http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685328
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685330
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=6c99c519d97e5fcbec7a9537d190efb442e4e833
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=dc11b6b379a882418093ecc8adf11f6166682e8d
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0107
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131654-1.html
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131656-1.html

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