CVE-2008-1767: Red Hat Desktop

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 12.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in pattern.c in libxslt before 1.1.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an XSL style sheet file with a long XSLT "transformation match" condition that triggers a large number of steps.

Affected products

• Red Hat Desktop: version 3 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 2.1 only; version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 4 only; version 5 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation: version 5 only
• Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation: version 2.1 only

Published 2008-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.