CVE-2012-2871 Memory corruption in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service or other impacts via crafted documents due to improper casting in libxml2 XSL transforms.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2012-2871?
CVE-2012-2871 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Apple Iphone Os, published on 31 Aug 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
libxml2 2.9.0-rc1 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89, does not properly support a cast of an unspecified variable during handling of XSL transforms, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted document, related to the _xmlNs data structure in include/libxml/tree.h.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-2871?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Apple Iphone Os, Google Chrome, Xmlsoft Libxml2.
How do I fix CVE-2012-2871?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2012-2871 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-2871 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Apple Iphone Os
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2871, GHSA-259f-5jp2-pgmr.