CVE-2008-2935

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-08-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the rc4 (1) encryption (aka exsltCryptoRc4EncryptFunction) and (2) decryption (aka exsltCryptoRc4DecryptFunction) functions in crypto.c in libexslt in libxslt 1.1.8 through 1.1.24 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XML file containing a long string as "an argument in the XSL input."

Affected products

xmlsoft libxslt: 1.1.8, 1.1.9, 1.1.10, 1.1.11, 1.1.12, 1.1.13 (+11)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31230
http://secunia.com/advisories/31310
http://secunia.com/advisories/31331
http://secunia.com/advisories/31363
http://secunia.com/advisories/31395
http://secunia.com/advisories/31399
http://secunia.com/advisories/32453
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-06.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4078
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0306
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1624
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:160

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