gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201203-08.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201203-08">
  <title>libxslt: Denial of Service</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in libxslt could result in Denial of Service.</synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libxslt</product>
  <announced>2012-03-06</announced>
  <revised count="1">2012-03-06</revised>
  <bug>402861</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/libxslt" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.1.26-r3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.26-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the GNOME project. XSLT is
      an XML language to define transformations for XML.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>An out of bounds read error has been found in libxslt/pattern.c in
      libxslt.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to process an XML file using a
      specially crafted XSLT stylesheet in an application linked against
      libxslt, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All libxslt users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26-r3"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3970">CVE-2011-3970</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="2012-03-03T04:30:56Z" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="2012-03-06T01:41:06Z" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>