CVE-2008-2935
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 12.8%EU EUVD
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."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 12.8% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2928)
- Published
- August 1, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2928 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31230
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31310
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31331
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31363
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31395
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31399
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32453
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200808-06.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4078
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0306
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1624
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:160
- http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-009.html(Patch)
- http://www.ocert.org/patches/exslt_crypt.patch(Exploit, Patch)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0649.html
- http://www.scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2008-003.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494976/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495018/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497829/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30467
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020596
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-633-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2266/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44141
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10827
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00092.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-August/msg00118.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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