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Message-ID: <20131105125009.GD19785@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 13:50:09 +0100
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
To: OSS Security List <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: CVE Request: additional fix for CVE-2012-2825 libxslt crash

Hi,

Our QA found that the reproducer in CVE-2012-2825 (magic.xsl and magic.xml)
also expose another libxslt crash in older libxslt versions.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849019

This bug was fixed in libxslt 1.1.25 with this commit:
https://gitorious.org/libxslt/libxslt/commit/7089a62b8f133b42a2981cf1f920a8b3fe9a8caa

commit 7089a62b8f133b42a2981cf1f920a8b3fe9a8caa
Author: Martin <gzlist@...glemail.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 16 19:02:16 2009 +0200

    Crash compiling stylesheet with DTD

    * libxslt/xslt.c: when a stylesheet embbeds a DTD the compilation
      process could get seriously wrong

Crash as a xmlDtd struct is accessed as a xmlNode, not really attacker controllable
I would say, but a denial of service (crash).

Ciao, Marcus

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