CVE-2008-2935

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."

🔗 References (54)

• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/31230
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/31310
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/31331
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/31363
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/31395
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/31399
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/32453
• secalert@redhathttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-06.xml
• secalert@redhathttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/4078
• secalert@redhathttp://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0306
• secalert@redhathttp://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1624
• secalert@redhathttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:160
• secalert@redhathttp://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-009.html
• secalert@redhathttp://www.ocert.org/patches/exslt_crypt.patch
• secalert@redhathttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0649.html