Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxslt-devel (opens in a new tab)
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- published29 Aug 2025
- disclosed26 Aug 2015
Introduced: 26 Aug 2015
CVE-2015-7995 (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-devel package and not the libxslt-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
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.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257962
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7995
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jan/msg00002.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jan/msg00003.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jan/msg00005.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00123.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3605
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/27/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/28/4
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77325
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034736
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038623
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.386546
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=7ca19df892ca22d9314e95d59ce2abdeff46b617
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05111017
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05158380
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2015-7995
- https://support.apple.com/HT205729
- https://support.apple.com/HT205731
- https://support.apple.com/HT205732
- https://support.apple.com/HT206168