Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxslt-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-LIBXSLTDEVEL-9454775
  • published15 Mar 2025
  • disclosed14 Mar 2025

Introduced: 14 Mar 2025

CVE-2025-24855  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxslt-devel package and not the libxslt-devel package as distributed by Centos.

numbers.c in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free because, in nested XPath evaluations, an XPath context node can be modified but never restored. This is related to xsltNumberFormatGetValue, xsltEvalXPathPredicate, xsltEvalXPathStringNs, and xsltComputeSortResultInternal.