Security update for libxslt

SUSE Security Update: Security update for libxslt
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:1654-1
Rating: moderate
References: #746039 #769182 #811686 #849019
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS

  • An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

    Description:


    libxslt receives hereby a LTSS roll-up security update to
    fix several security issues:

    *

    CVE-2013-4520: The XSL implementation in libxslt
    allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service
    (crash) via an invalid DTD. (addendum due to incomplete fix
    for CVE-2012-2825)

    *

    CVE-2012-6139: libxslt allowed 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.

    *

    CVE-2012-2825: The XSL implementation in libxslt
    allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service
    (incorrect read operation) via unspecified vectors.

    *

    CVE-2011-3970: libxslt allowed remote attackers to
    cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via
    unspecified vectors.

    Security Issue references:

    * CVE-2012-6139
    >
    * CVE-2012-2825
    >
    * CVE-2011-3970
    >

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64):
    • libxslt-1.1.15-15.22.1
    • libxslt-devel-1.1.15-15.22.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS (s390x x86_64):
    • libxslt-32bit-1.1.15-15.22.1
    • libxslt-devel-32bit-1.1.15-15.22.1

    References:

    • http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3970.html
    • http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2825.html
    • http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6139.html
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/746039
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/769182
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/811686
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/849019
    • http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=8f27549488997eeff15597ab0b7a9c1a