CVE-2008-2935

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 13%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDAug 1

1st PoCJul 31

exploitation probability

13%top 4% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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."

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/32133

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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 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