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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2008-2935 EUVD-2008-2928GHSA-4597-8mcf-pw36

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the rc4 (1) encryption (aka exsltCryptoRc4EncryptFunction) and (2) decryption (aka exsltCryptoRc4De…

Published Aug 1, 2008 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by redhat

Package: libxslt Ecosystem: Debian

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the rc4 (1) encryption (aka exsltCryptoRc4EncryptFunction) and (2) decryption (aka exsltCryptoRc4DecryptFunction) functions in crypto.c in libexslt in libxslt 1.1.8 through 1.1.24 allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via an XML file containing a long string as "an argument in the XSL input."

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Debian

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 libxslt 1.1.24-2 —
Debian 13 libxslt 1.1.24-2 —
Debian 12 libxslt 1.1.24-2 —
Debian 5.0 libxslt 1.1.24-1+lenny1 DTSA-152-1
Debian 4.0 libxslt 1.1.19-3 DSA-1624-1

Red Hat

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 5 libxslt +2 1.1.17-2.el5_2.2 RHSA-2008:0649
RHEL 4 libxslt +2 1.1.11-1.el4_7.2 RHSA-2008:0649

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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Advisories 3

References