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Debian 8: DLA-1860-1 Moderate: libxslt Memory Corruption

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2019
Dist Debian Esm H88
Critical libxslt patch addresses multiple memory issues in Debian Jessie. Ensure your packages are updated immediately!
Several vulnerabilities were found in libxslt the XSLT 1.0 processing library

Summary

Invalid memory access leading to DoS at exsltDynMapFunction. libxslt
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory
corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown
vectors.

CVE-2016-4609

Out-of-bounds read at xmlGetLineNoInternal()
libxslt allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory
corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown
vectors.

CVE-2019-13117

An xsl:number with certain format strings could lead to an
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.

CVE-2019-13118

A type holding grouping characters of an xsl:number instruction was
too narrow and an invalid character/length combination could be
passed to xsltNumberFormatDecimal, leading to a read of
uninitialized stack data.

Read the Full Advisory


Package: libxslt
Version: 1.1.28-2+deb8u5
CVE ID: CVE-2016-4609 CVE-2016-4610 CVE-2019-13117
Debian Bug: 932321 932320

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