CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-1767

7.5 HIGH Published 2008-05-23 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-05-23
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in pattern.c in libxslt before 1.1.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XSL style sheet file with a long XSLT "transformation match" condition that triggers a large number of steps.

Affected configurations

• redhat desktop 3 • redhat enterprise linux 2.1 • redhat enterprise linux 3.0 • redhat enterprise linux 4.0 • redhat enterprise linux 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 4 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 5 • redhat enterprise linux desktop workstation 5 • redhat linux advanced workstation 2.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References