Expired Pointer Dereference Affecting GNOME/libxslt package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNOMELIBXSLT-13110054
  • published29 Sept 2025
  • disclosed4 Aug 2025
  • creditIvan Fratric

Introduced: 4 Aug 2025

CVE-2025-10911  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-825  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Expired Pointer Dereference in the parsing process of xsl nodes. An attacker can cause the application to crash by triggering the dereference of expired pointers after memory has been freed.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1