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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2019-13117

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 1, 2019
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, an xsl:number with certain format strings could lead to a uninitialized read in xsltNumberFormatInsertNumbers. This could allow an attacker to discern whether a byte on the stack contains the characters A, a, I, i, or 0, or any other character.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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