CVE-2012-6139

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-04-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

libxslt before 1.1.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an (1) empty match attribute in a XSL key to the xsltAddKey function in keys.c or (2) uninitialized variable to the xsltDocumentFunction function in functions.c.

Affected products

Opensuse: 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
xmlsoft libxslt: through 1.1.27; 0.0.1, 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.5.0 (+70)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102065.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00028.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52745
http://secunia.com/advisories/52805
http://secunia.com/advisories/52813
http://secunia.com/advisories/52884
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2654
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:141
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028338
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1784-1
http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html

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