vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2025-24855
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C) | Mar 14, 2025 | Jul 2, 2025 | Mar 25, 2026 |
Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 14, 2025
Added
Jul 2, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 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
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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