Vulnerability CVE-2013-4520
Published: 2013-12-14   Modified: 2013-12-15

Description:
xslt.c in libxslt before 1.1.25 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a stylesheet that embeds a DTD, which causes a structure to be accessed as a different type. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-2825.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
libxslt 1.1.24 local crash
Marcus
06.11.2013

Type:

CWE-DesignError

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Xmlsoft -> Libxslt 

 References:
https://gitorious.org/libxslt/libxslt/commit/7089a62b8f133b42a2981cf1f920a8b3fe9a8caa
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849019
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/239
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/238
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131656-1.html
https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131654-1.html
http://www.osvdb.org/99671
http://secunia.com/advisories/56072
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