CVE-2025-24855 Affecting libxslt-devel package, versions <1.1.34-150400.3.6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES156-LIBXSLTDEVEL-9653484
  • published4 Apr 2025
  • disclosed3 Apr 2025

Introduced: 3 Apr 2025

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How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.6 libxslt-devel to version 1.1.34-150400.3.6.1 or higher.

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 SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1