CVE-2012-2871 (GCVE-0-2012-2871)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-08-31 19:00
Modified
2024-08-06 19:50
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
libxml2 2.9.0-rc1 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89, does not properly support a cast of an unspecified variable during handling of XSL transforms, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted document, related to the _xmlNs data structure in include/libxml/tree.h.
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