CVE-2012-2870 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-2870

libxslt 1.1.26 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before...

Vulnerability Description

libxslt 1.1.26 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89, does not properly manage memory, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted XSLT expression that is not properly identified during XPath navigation, related to (1) the xsltCompileLocationPathPattern function in libxslt/pattern.c and (2) the xsltGenerateIdFunction function in libxslt/functions.c.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

iphone os, chrome, libxslt
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 2.0, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.2, 2.2.1, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.2, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.1, 4.2.1, 4.2.5, 4.2.8, 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 4.3.5, 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.1, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 21.0.1180.0, 21.0.1180.1, 21.0.1180.2, 21.0.1180.31, 21.0.1180.32, 21.0.1180.33, 21.0.1180.34, 21.0.1180.35, 21.0.1180.36, 21.0.1180.37, 21.0.1180.38, 21.0.1180.39, 21.0.1180.41, 21.0.1180.46, 21.0.1180.47, 21.0.1180.48, 21.0.1180.49, 21.0.1180.50, 21.0.1180.51, 21.0.1180.52, 21.0.1180.53, 21.0.1180.54, 21.0.1180.55, 21.0.1180.56, 21.0.1180.57, 21.0.1180.59, 21.0.1180.60, 21.0.1180.61, 21.0.1180.62, 21.0.1180.63, 21.0.1180.64, 21.0.1180.68, 21.0.1180.69, 21.0.1180.70, 21.0.1180.71, 21.0.1180.72, 21.0.1180.73, 21.0.1180.74, 21.0.1180.75, 21.0.1180.76, 21.0.1180.77, 21.0.1180.78, 21.0.1180.79, 21.0.1180.80, 21.0.1180.81, 21.0.1180.82, 21.0.1180.83, 21.0.1180.84, 21.0.1180.85, 21.0.1180.86, 21.0.1180.87, 1.1.8, 1.1.9, 1.1.10, 1.1.11, 1.1.12, 1.1.13, 1.1.14, 1.1.15, 1.1.16, 1.1.17, 1.1.18, 1.1.19, 1.1.20, 1.1.21, 1.1.22, 1.1.23, 1.1.24

Timeline

Official Publish: August 31st, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.