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CVE-2011-3970

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-3970 describes an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in libxslt, specifically affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 17.0.963.46, as well as products from SUSE and xmlsoft. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and remote attack vector, with a potential impact of denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known public exploit codes in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. While it has received some community discussion and media coverage, it is not listed in the KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 17.0.963.46CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.1.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xmlsoft:libxslt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:10:sp4:*:*:ltss:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0182 is in the 57th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libxslt-0:1.1.17-4.el5_8.3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libxslt-0:1.1.26-2.el6_3.1
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: libxslt
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: mingw32-libxslt

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-3970Low

libxslt: Out-of-bounds read when parsing certain patterns

Feb 9, 2012

References

code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2012/02/stable-channel-update.html
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14818
suse.com / support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131654-1.html
suse.com / support/update/announcement/2013/suse-su-20131656-1.html