libxml2 XSL transform type cast handling vulnerability
CVE-2012-2871 is a vulnerability in libxml2 2.9.0-rc1 and earlier, including usage in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89. According to the provided content, libxml2 does not properly support a cast of an unspecified variable during handling of XSL transforms. The issue is related to the _xmlNs data structure defined in include/libxml/tree.h. A remote attacker can trigger the flaw by supplying a crafted document that causes vulnerable XML/XSLT processing code to mishandle the cast operation.
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