CVE-2012-6139
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 4.3%EU EUVD
libxslt before 1.1.28 allows 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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 4.3% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-6000)
- Published
- April 12, 2013
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-6000 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
- 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
- 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
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
- xmlsoft / libxslt
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References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102065.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00028.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52745(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52805(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52813(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52884(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2654
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:141
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028338
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1784-1
- http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685328(Exploit, Patch)
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685330(Patch)
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=6c99c519d97e5fcbec7a9537d190efb442e4e833(Patch)
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=dc11b6b379a882418093ecc8adf11f6166682e8d(Exploit, Patch)
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0107
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131654-1.html
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131656-1.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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