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Fedora 31: libxslt FEDORA-2019-fdf6ec39b4 critical: uninitialized read fix

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Calendar Grey October 28, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
In order to address significant vulnerabilities related to uninitialized reads and bolster security measures, it's essential to update the libxslt package on Fedora 31.
Fixes for CVE-2019-13117, CVE-2019-13118

Summary

This C library allows to transform XML files into other XML files

(or HTML, text, ...) using the standard XSLT stylesheet transformation

mechanism. To use it you need to have a version of libxml2 >= 2.6.27

installed. The xsltproc command is a command line interface to the XSLT engine

Fixes for CVE-2019-13117, CVE-2019-13118

* Fri Oct 11 2019 Jakub Jelen - 1.1.33-4

- Do not build python bindings even if the python is available

- Fix CVE-2019-13117 (#1728547)

- Fix CVE-2019-13118 (#1728542)

* Tue Sep 10 2019 Richard W.M. Jones - 1.1.33-3

- Comment out Python bindings until upstream can convert them to Python 3.

[ 1 ] Bug #1728546 - CVE-2019-13117 libxslt: an xsl number with certain format strings could lead to a uninitialized read in xsltNumberFormatInsertNumbers

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1728546

[ 2 ] Bug #1728541 - CVE-2019-13118 libxslt: read of uninitialized stack data due to too narrow xsl:number instruction and an invalid character

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1728541

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-fdf6ec39b4' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 1.1.33
Release: 4.fc31
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Summary: Library providing the Gnome XSLT engine

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