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CVE-2012-2870

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-08-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

• Apple Iphone Os: through 6.1.4; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2 (+41)
• Google Chrome: through 21.0.1180.88; 21.0.1180.0, 21.0.1180.1, 21.0.1180.2, 21.0.1180.31, 21.0.1180.32, 21.0.1180.33 (+45)
• xmlsoft libxslt: through 1.1.26; 1.1.8, 1.1.9, 1.1.10, 1.1.11, 1.1.12, 1.1.13 (+11)

References

• 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

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