Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxslt  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1204-LIBXSLT-473999
  • published19 Oct 2019
  • disclosed18 Oct 2019

Introduced: 18 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-18197  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

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

In xsltCopyText in transform.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a pointer variable isn't reset under certain circumstances. If the relevant memory area happened to be freed and reused in a certain way, a bounds check could fail and memory outside a buffer could be written to, or uninitialized data could be disclosed.