CVE-2012-2871: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

August 31, 2012 (updated August 29, 2017)

libxml2, as used in Google Chrome, 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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2871

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