CVE-2008-2935
EPSS 22.1%libxslt - arbitrary code execution
Published: 8/1/2008Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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."
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/libxsltfrom 0, < 1.1.24-2
- Debian/libxsltfrom 0, < 1.1.19-3
- Debian/libxsltfrom 0, < 1.1.24-1+lenny1