CVE-2012-6139

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    CVE-2012-6139

    Published: 12 Apr 2013Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: libxslt before 1.1.28 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via an (1) empty match attribute in a XSL key to the xsltAddKey function in keys.c or (2) uninitialized variable to the xsltDocumentFunction function in functions.c.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/52745, http://secunia.com/advisories/52805, http://secunia.com/advisories/52813, http://secunia.com/advisories/52884, http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2654, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:141, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1784-1, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685328, https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=dc11b6b379a882418093ecc8adf11f6166682e8d, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685328, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685330, https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=6c99c519d97e5fcbec7a9537d190efb442e4e833, https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=dc11b6b379a882418093ecc8adf11f6166682e8d, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102065.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00020.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00028.html, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028338, http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html, https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0107, https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131654-1.html, https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131656-1.html

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High