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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2015-7995: libxslt security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2015-7995: libxslt security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/17/2015
Created
12/05/2019
Added
12/04/2019
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

The xsltStylePreCompute function in preproc.c in libxslt 1.1.28 does not check if the parent node is an element, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted XML file, related to a "type confusion" issue.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libxslt
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libxslt-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-libxslt-python

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