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Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxslt  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-LIBXSLT-9859712
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed25 May 2016
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Introduced: 25 May 2016

CVE-2016-1683  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

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

numbers.c in libxslt before 1.1.29, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, mishandles namespace nodes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap memory access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.

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