USN-1784-1: libxslt vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 11.10
• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• libxslt - XSLT processing library

Details

Nicholas Gregoire discovered that libxslt incorrectly handled certain empty
values. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a
specially crafted XSLT document, a remote attacker could cause libxslt to
crash, causing a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.04

• libxslt1.1 - 1.1.22-1ubuntu1.4

Ubuntu 12.10

• libxslt1.1 - 1.1.26-14ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• libxslt1.1 - 1.1.26-8ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 11.10

• libxslt1.1 - 1.1.26-7ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 10.04

• libxslt1.1 - 1.1.26-1ubuntu1.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2012-6139