CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.8. It affects Chrome. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2012-2871
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.8
EPSS
2.38%
Chrome
Original NVD 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.