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CVE-2008-2935

Fixed in a distro release EPSS 13%

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."

Published 2008-08-01 · CVE record · OSV

Products: xmlsoft libxslt

Distro releases

ReleasePackageFixed in
Debian 12libxslt1.1.24-2
Debian 13libxslt1.1.24-2
Debian 14libxslt1.1.24-2
Debian 4.0libxslt1.1.19-3
Debian 5.0libxslt1.1.24-1+lenny1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4libxslt0:1.1.11-1.el4_7.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4libxslt-debuginfo0:1.1.11-1.el4_7.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4libxslt-devel0:1.1.11-1.el4_7.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4libxslt-python0:1.1.11-1.el4_7.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5libxslt0:1.1.17-2.el5_2.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5libxslt-debuginfo0:1.1.17-2.el5_2.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5libxslt-devel0:1.1.17-2.el5_2.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5libxslt-python0:1.1.17-2.el5_2.2