CVE-2012-2871

NameCVE-2012-2871
Descriptionlibxml2 2.9.0-rc1 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89, does not properly support a cast of an unspecified variable during handling of XSL transforms, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted document, related to the _xmlNs data structure in include/libxml/tree.h.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-2555-1
Debian Bugs689422

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
libxslt (PTS)buster1.1.32-2.2~deb10u1fixed
buster (security)1.1.32-2.2~deb10u2fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye1.1.34-4+deb11u1fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm1.1.35-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
chromium-browsersourcesqueeze(unfixed)end-of-life
chromium-browsersource(unstable)21.0.1180.89~r154005-1
libxsltsourcesqueeze1.1.26-6+squeeze2DSA-2555-1
libxsltsource(unstable)1.1.26-14689422
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