Scientific Linux: 2008-05-21 Moderate: libxslt Buffer Overflow Risk

Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 13:14:33 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for libxslt on SL3.x, SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: libxslt security update
Issue date:	2008-05-21
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-1767

Anthony de Almeida Lopes reported the libxslt library did not properly
process long "transformation match" conditions in the XSL stylesheet files.
An attacker could create a malicious XSL file that would cause a crash, or,
possibly, execute and arbitrary code with the privileges of the application
using libxslt library to perform XSL transformations. (CVE-2008-1767)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
libxslt-1.0.33-6.src.rpm
 i386:
libxslt-1.0.33-6.i386.rpm
libxslt-devel-1.0.33-6.i386.rpm
libxslt-python-1.0.33-6.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
libxslt-1.0.33-6.i386.rpm
libxslt-1.0.33-6.x86_64.rpm
libxslt-devel-1.0.33-6.x86_64.rpm
libxslt-python-1.0.33-6.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
libxslt-1.1.11-1.el4_6.1.src.rpm
 i386:
libxslt-1.1.11-1.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
libxslt-devel-1.1.11-1.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
libxslt-python-1.1.11-1.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
libxslt-1.1.11-1.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
libxslt-1.1.11-1.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm
libxslt-devel-1.1.11-1.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm
libxslt-python-1.1.11-1.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
libxslt-1.1.17-2.el5_1.1.src.rpm
 i386:
libxslt-1.1.17-2.el5_1.1.i386.rpm
libxslt-devel-1.1.17-2.el5_1.1.i386.rpm
libxslt-python-1.1.17-2.el5_1.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
libxslt-1.1.17-2.el5_1.1.i386.rpm
libxslt-1.1.17-2.el5_1.1.x86_64.rpm
libxslt-devel-1.1.17-2.el5_1.1.i386.rpm
libxslt-devel-1.1.17-2.el5_1.1.x86_64.rpm
libxslt-python-1.1.17-2.el5_1.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson