CVE-2012-2871 Information

Description

libxml2 2.9.0-rc1 and earlier as used in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89 does not properly support a cast of an unspecified variable during handling of XSL transforms which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted document related to the _xmlNs data structure in include/libxml/tree.h.

Reference

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=138673 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/libxml/src/include/libxml/tree.h?r1=56276&r2=149930 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/third_party/libxml/src/include/libxml/tree.h?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/10824157 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78179