vulnerability
Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2025-24855: libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt numbers.c
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C) | Mar 14, 2025 | May 12, 2025 | Mar 30, 2026 |
Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 14, 2025
Added
May 12, 2025
Modified
Mar 30, 2026
Description
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.
Solution
linuxrpm-upgrade-rhcos
References
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