Buffer overflow in Xmlsoft Libxslt

CVE-2008-2935

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."

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.128 (95.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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