CVE-2012-6139

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.

• 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://secunia.com/advisories/52745Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52805Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52813Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52884Vendor Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2654
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:141
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028338
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1784-1
• http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685328Exploit, Patch
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685330Patch
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=6c99c519d97e5fcbec7a9537d190efb442e4e833Patch
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=dc11b6b379a882418093ecc8adf11f6166682e8dExploit, Patch
• 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
• 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://secunia.com/advisories/52745Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52805Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52813Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/52884Vendor Advisory
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2654
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:141
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028338
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1784-1
• http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685328Exploit, Patch
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685330Patch
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=6c99c519d97e5fcbec7a9537d190efb442e4e833Patch
• https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=dc11b6b379a882418093ecc8adf11f6166682e8dExploit, Patch
• 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

Published

Apr 12, 2013

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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