Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting libxslt package, versions <1.1.28-2.1ubuntu0.3


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.73% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-LIBXSLT-474000
  • published1 Jul 2019
  • disclosed1 Jul 2019

Introduced: 1 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-13118  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-843  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 libxslt to version 1.1.28-2.1ubuntu0.3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxslt package and not the libxslt package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a type holding grouping characters of an xsl:number instruction was too narrow and an invalid character/length combination could be passed to xsltNumberFormatDecimal, leading to a read of uninitialized stack data.

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