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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201203-08">
+ <title>libxslt: Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability in libxslt could result in Denial of Service.</synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">libxslt</product>
+ <announced>2012-03-06</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2012-03-06</revised>
+ <bug>402861</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-libs/libxslt" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.1.26-r3</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.26-r3</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the GNOME project. XSLT is
+ an XML language to define transformations for XML.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>An out of bounds read error has been found in libxslt/pattern.c in
+ libxslt.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to process an XML file using a
+ specially crafted XSLT stylesheet in an application linked against
+ libxslt, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>All libxslt users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.26-r3"
+ </code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-3970">CVE-2011-3970</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata timestamp="2012-03-03T04:30:56Z" tag="requester">ackle</metadata>
+ <metadata timestamp="2012-03-06T01:41:06Z" tag="submitter">ackle</metadata>
+</glsa>