CVE-2012-6139 Affecting libxslt package, versions <1.1.26-14.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
22.09% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBXSLT-308005
  • published12 Apr 2013
  • disclosed12 Apr 2013

Introduced: 12 Apr 2013

CVE-2012-6139  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 libxslt to version 1.1.26-14.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxslt package and not the libxslt package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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