CVE-2012-2893

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-09-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Double free vulnerability in libxslt, as used in Google Chrome before 22.0.1229.79, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to XSL transforms.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 22.0.1229.78; 22.0.1229.0, 22.0.1229.1, 22.0.1229.2, 22.0.1229.3, 22.0.1229.4, 22.0.1229.6 (+46)

References

http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9a5da8e7d4b6f3454614b0331a51bf29c966f556
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/09/stable-channel-update_25.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00012.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50838
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2555
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:164
https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/10919019
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=144799
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15714
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=154331
http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9a5da8e7d4b6f3454614b0331a51bf29c966f556
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/09/stable-channel-update_25.html

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