<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!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>March 06, 2012</announced> <revised>March 06, 2012: 1</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 ">=dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26-r3" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3970">CVE-2011-3970</uri> </references> <metadata timestamp="Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:30:56 +0000" tag="requester">ackle</metadata> <metadata timestamp="Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:41:06 +0000" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata> </glsa>