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Fedora 40: libxslt 2025-d4d7cfe35a Security Advisory Updates

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Calendar Grey March 26, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A security advisory for libxslt in Fedora 40 highlights important updates due to critical use-after-free issues.
1.1.43

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

Update Information:

1.1.43

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora libxslt Use-After-Free

Change Log

* Wed Mar 12 2025 Gwyn Ciesla - 1.1.43-1 - 1.1.43 * Fri Jan 17 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.1.42-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Aug 6 2024 Tomas Popela - 1.1.42-3 - Only build python support on Fedora * Thu Jul 18 2024 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.1.42-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_41_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2351736 - libxslt-1.1.43 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2351736 [ 2 ] Bug #2352507 - CVE-2025-24855 libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt numbers.c [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2352507 [ 3 ] Bug #2352517 - CVE-2024-55549 libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt (xsltGetInheritedNsList) [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2352517

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-d4d7cfe35a' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: libxslt
Product: Fedora 40
Version: 1.1.43
Release: 1.fc40
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Summary: Library providing the Gnome XSLT engine

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora libxslt Use-After-Free

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