Upstream information
Description
libxml2 2.9.0-rc1 and earlier, as used in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89, 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.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entry: 778005 SUSE Security Advisories:- openSUSE-SU-2012:1215-1, published Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:08:47 +0200 (CEST)