CVE-2012-2871 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-2871

libxml2 2.9.0-rc1 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before...

Vulnerability Description

libxml2 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.

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, libxml2
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

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.