A vulnerability has been identified in Libxslt, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused due to the library not properly processing overly long "transformation match" conditions in XSL stylesheet files, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Anthony de Almeida Lopes.
ChangeLog
2008-05-21 : Initial release
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