Bug 835982 (CVE-2012-2825)

Summary:	CVE-2012-2825 libxslt: DoS when reading unexpected DTD nodes in XSLT
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	hhorak, rmillner, tkramer, veillard
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	835983, 852942, 852943, 852945, 852946
Bug Blocks:	835984, 852939

Description Vincent Danen 2012-06-27 18:07:40 UTC

The Google Chrome 20 release announcement [1] noted and fixed a flaw in libxslt:

* [$500] [127417] Medium CVE-2012-2825: Wild read in XSL handling. Credit to Nicholas Gregoire.

This has been corrected in the Chromium git repository [2]; the upstream fix is noted as pending.

[1] http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.de/2012/06/stable-channel-update_26.html
[2] http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=chromium/src.git;a=patch;h=bb7bfb81c158268fb242292b7e0fbd2d3b933d09

Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2012-06-27 18:13:44 UTC

Created libxslt tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 835983]

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2012-09-13 17:44:06 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:1265 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1265.html

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2012-09-26 09:11:32 UTC

libxslt-1.1.26-10.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2012-09-27 04:26:36 UTC

libxslt-1.1.26-9.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2012-12-09 06:30:59 UTC

libxslt-1.1.27-2.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Vincent Danen 2013-11-06 16:12:02 UTC

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