Upstream information

CVE-2008-1767 at MITRE

Description

Buffer overflow in pattern.c in libxslt before 1.1.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XSL style sheet file with a long XSLT "transformation match" condition that triggers a large number of steps.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 391920 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
  • libxslt-devel >= 1.1.24-19.23.1
  • libxslt-devel-32bit >= 1.1.24-19.23.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA libxslt-devel-1.1.24-19.23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
  • libxslt >= 1.1.24-19.15
  • libxslt-32bit >= 1.1.24-19.15
  • libxslt-x86 >= 1.1.24-19.15
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 GA libxslt-1.1.24-19.15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
  • libxslt >= 1.1.24-19.15
  • libxslt-32bit >= 1.1.24-19.15
  • libxslt-x86 >= 1.1.24-19.15
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 GA libxslt-1.1.24-19.15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
  • libxslt >= 1.1.24-19.21.1
  • libxslt-32bit >= 1.1.24-19.21.1
  • libxslt-x86 >= 1.1.24-19.21.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA libxslt-1.1.24-19.21.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • libxslt >= 1.1.24-19.23.1
  • libxslt-32bit >= 1.1.24-19.23.1
  • libxslt-devel >= 1.1.24-19.23.1
  • libxslt-devel-32bit >= 1.1.24-19.23.1
  • libxslt-x86 >= 1.1.24-19.23.1
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA libxslt-1.1.24-19.23.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA libxslt-devel-1.1.24-19.23.1
SUSE Linux Micro 6.0
  • libexslt0 >= 1.1.38-2.9
  • libxslt1 >= 1.1.38-2.9
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 GA libexslt0-1.1.38-2.9
SUSE Linux Micro 6.1
  • libexslt0 >= 1.1.38-slfo.1.1_1.3
  • libxslt1 >= 1.1.38-slfo.1.1_1.3
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 GA libexslt0-1.1.38-slfo.1.1_1.3
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • libxslt-devel >= 1.1.34-3.2
  • libxslt-devel-32bit >= 1.1.34-3.2
  • libxslt-tools >= 1.1.34-3.2
  • libxslt1 >= 1.1.34-3.2
  • libxslt1-32bit >= 1.1.34-3.2
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11017

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:46:15 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:17 2025