VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2012-2871

CVSS score6.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.38%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2012-08-31
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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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