CVE-2012-2870 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138672 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=140368 http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/stable-channel-update_30.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00009.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00030.html http://secunia.com/advisories/50838 http://secunia.com/advisories/54886 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/functions.c?r1=75684&r2=149998 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/functions.c?view=log http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/pattern.c?r1=118654&r2=150123 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxslt/libxslt/pattern.c?view=log http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5934 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6001 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2555 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:164 https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10823168 https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10830177