DSA-2654-1 libxslt -- denial of service

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2654-1 libxslt -- denial of service

Date Reported:

03 Apr 2013

Affected Packages:

libxslt

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 703933.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-6139.

More information:

Nicolas Gregoire discovered that libxslt, an XSLT processing runtime library, is prone to denial of service vulnerabilities via crafted XSL stylesheets.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.26-6+squeeze3.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.26-14.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.26-14.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxslt packages.