Lot of security fixes and a few other bugs

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Chris Evans discovered that libxslt incorrectly handled generate-id XPath functions. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted XSLT document, a remote attacker could obtain potentially sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.04. (CVE-2011-1202)

It was discovered that libxslt incorrectly parsed certain patterns. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted XSLT document, a remote attacker could cause libxslt to crash, causing a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3970)

Nicholas Gregoire discovered that libxslt incorrectly handled unexpected DTD nodes. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted XSLT document, a remote attacker could cause libxslt to crash, causing a denial of service. (CVE-2012-2825)

Nicholas Gregoire discovered that libxslt incorrectly managed memory.
If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted XSLT document, a remote attacker could cause libxslt to crash, causing a denial of service. (CVE-2012-2870)

Nicholas Gregoire discovered that libxslt incorrectly handled certain transforms. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted XSLT document, a remote attacker could cause libxslt to crash, causing a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-2871)

Cris Neckar discovered that libxslt incorrectly managed memory. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted XSLT document, a remote attacker could cause libxslt to crash, causing a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2012-2893).

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The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote host is earlier than 17.0.963.46 and is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities:

  - Clipboard monitoring after a paste action is possible.
    (CVE-2011-3953)

  - Application crashes are possible with excessive     database usage, killing an 'IndexDB' transaction,     signature checks and processing unusual certificates.
    (CVE-2011-3954, CVE-2011-3955, CVE-2011-3965,     CVE-2011-3967)

  - Sandboxed origins are not handled properly inside     extensions. (CVE-2011-3956)

  - Use-after-free errors exist related to PDF garbage     collection, stylesheet error handling, CSS handling,     SVG layout and 'mousemove' event handling.
    (CVE-2011-3957, CVE-2011-3966, CVE-2011-3968,      CVE-2011-3969, CVE-2011-3971)

  - An error exists related to bad casting and column     spans. (CVE-2011-3958)

  - A buffer overflow exists related to locale handing.
    (CVE-2011-3959)

  - Out-of-bounds read errors exist related to audio     decoding, path clipping, PDF fax imaging, 'libxslt',     and the shader translator. (CVE-2011-3960,     CVE-2011-3962, CVE-2011-3963, CVE-2011-3970,     CVE-2011-3972)

  - A race condition exists after a utility process     crashes. (CVE-2011-3961)

  - An unspecified error exists related to the URL bar     after drag and drop operations. (CVE-2011-3964)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in libxslt :

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

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

libxslt was prone to an out-of-bounds read flaw when parsing certain patterns (CVE-2011-3970). This could have lead to a Denial of Service.

Updated libxslt packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

libxslt is a library for transforming XML files into other textual formats (including HTML, plain text, and other XML representations of the underlying data) using the standard XSLT stylesheet transformation mechanism.

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way libxslt applied templates to nodes selected by certain namespaces. An attacker could use this flaw to create a malicious XSL file that, when used by an application linked against libxslt to perform an XSL transformation, could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
(CVE-2012-2871)

Several denial of service flaws were found in libxslt. An attacker could use these flaws to create a malicious XSL file that, when used by an application linked against libxslt to perform an XSL transformation, could cause the application to crash. (CVE-2012-2825, CVE-2012-2870, CVE-2011-3970)

An information leak could occur if an application using libxslt processed an untrusted XPath expression, or used a malicious XSL file to perform an XSL transformation. If combined with other flaws, this leak could possibly help an attacker bypass intended memory corruption protections. (CVE-2011-1202)

All libxslt users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. All running applications linked against libxslt must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Fix a default namespace regression in 1.1.27 Upstream new release also including a number of security fixes

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The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-1265 advisory.

    - fixes CVE-2011-1202 CVE-2011-3970 CVE-2012-2825 CVE-2012-2871 CVE-2012-2870
    - Fix generate-id() to not expose object addresses (CVE-2011-1202)
    - Fix some case of pattern parsing errors (CVE-2011-3970)
    - Fix a bug in selecting XSLT elements (CVE-2012-2825)
    - Fix default template processing on namespace nodes (CVE-2012-2871)
    - Cleanup of the pattern compilation code (CVE-2012-2870)
    - Hardening of code checking node types in various entry point (CVE-2012-2870)
    - Hardening of code checking node types in EXSLT (CVE-2012-2870)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
62326	Fedora 16 : libxslt-1.1.26-9.fc16 (2012-14048)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	9/27/2012	1/11/2021	medium
62435	Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : libxslt vulnerabilities (USN-1595-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	10/5/2012	9/19/2019	medium
57876	Google Chrome < 17.0.963.46 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Windows	2/9/2012	5/19/2026	high
58178	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libxslt (MDVSA-2012:028)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	3/1/2012	1/6/2021	medium
58588	SuSE 11.1 Security Update : libxslt (SAT Patch Number 5810)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	4/4/2012	1/19/2021	medium
62085	CentOS 5 / 6 : libxslt (CESA-2012:1265)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	9/14/2012	1/4/2021	medium
63195	Fedora 18 : libxslt-1.1.27-2.fc18 (2012-15716)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	12/10/2012	1/11/2021	medium
68622	Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : libxslt (ELSA-2012-1265)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	7/12/2013	4/29/2025	critical

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