Environment Affecting libxslt package, versions <1.1.29-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.24% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE33-LIBXSLT-468424
  • published22 Sept 2019
  • disclosed22 Sept 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Sep 2019

CVE-2015-7995  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.3 libxslt to version 1.1.29-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxslt package and not the libxslt package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

The xsltStylePreCompute function in preproc.c in libxslt 1.1.28 does not check if the parent node is an element, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted XML file, related to a "type confusion" issue.

CVSS Base Scores

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