Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxslt-devel  (opens in a new tab)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-RHEL8-LIBXSLTDEVEL-1325744
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Jul 2016

Introduced: 21 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-4607  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

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.

libxslt in Apple iOS before 9.3.3, OS X before 10.11.6, iTunes before 12.4.2 on Windows, iCloud before 5.2.1 on Windows, tvOS before 9.2.2, and watchOS before 2.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4608, CVE-2016-4609, CVE-2016-4610, and CVE-2016-4612.