Ubuntu: USN-3271-1 (CVE-2015-7995): Libxslt vulnerabilities
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
11/17/2015
07/25/2018
05/02/2017
09/12/2020
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)
- ubuntu-upgrade-libxslt1-1
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