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HistoryMay 22, 2008 - 6:09 a.m.

libxslt security update

2008-05-2206:09:03
CentOS Project
lists.centos.org
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CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.018

Percentile

88.1%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0287-01

libxslt is a C library, based on libxml, for parsing of XML files into
other textual formats (eg HTML, plain text and other XML representations of
the underlying data) It uses the standard XSLT stylesheet transformation
mechanism and, being written in plain ANSI C, is designed to be simple to
incorporate into other applications

Anthony de Almeida Lopes reported the libxslt library did not properly
process long β€œtransformation match” conditions in the XSL stylesheet files.
An attacker could create a malicious XSL file that would cause a crash, or,
possibly, execute and arbitrary code with the privileges of the application
using libxslt library to perform XSL transformations. (CVE-2008-1767)

All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to resolve this issue.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-May/077088.html

Affected packages:
libxslt
libxslt-devel
libxslt-python

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.018

Percentile

88.1%