SUSE-SU-2013:1654-1: moderate: Security update for libxslt

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   SUSE Security Update: Security update for libxslt
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Announcement ID:    SUSE-SU-2013:1654-1
Rating:             moderate
References:         #746039 #769182 #811686 #849019 
Cross-References:   CVE-2011-3970 CVE-2012-2825 CVE-2012-6139
                   
Affected Products:
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS
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   An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one
   errata is now available.

Description:


   libxslt receives hereby a LTSS roll-up security update to
   fix several  security issues:

   *

   CVE-2013-4520: The XSL implementation in libxslt
   allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service
   (crash) via an invalid DTD. (addendum due to incomplete fix
   for CVE-2012-2825)

   *

   CVE-2012-6139: libxslt allowed remote attackers to
   cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and
   crash) via an (1) empty match attribute in a XSL key to the
   xsltAddKey function in keys.c or (2) uninitialized variable
   to the xsltDocumentFunction function in functions.c.

   *

   CVE-2012-2825: The XSL implementation in libxslt
   allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service
   (incorrect read operation) via unspecified vectors.

   *

   CVE-2011-3970: libxslt allowed remote attackers to
   cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via
   unspecified vectors.

   Security Issue references:

   * CVE-2012-6139
   <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6139
   >
   * CVE-2012-2825
   <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2825
   >
   * CVE-2011-3970
   <http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-3970
   >



Package List:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64):

      libxslt-1.1.15-15.22.1
      libxslt-devel-1.1.15-15.22.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS (s390x x86_64):

      libxslt-32bit-1.1.15-15.22.1
      libxslt-devel-32bit-1.1.15-15.22.1


References:

   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-3970.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2825.html
   http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-6139.html
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/746039
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/769182
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/811686
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/849019
   http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=8f27549488997eeff15597ab0b7a9c1a



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