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Fedora 41: Alert on mingw-libxslt Vulnerability for CVE-2025-7424 Issue

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Calendar Grey August 5, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Urgent notice: A critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-7424, exists in mingw-libxslt on Fedora 41. Apply updates immediately to protect your systems and verify your packages for the latest patches
Apply proposed fix for CVE-2205-7424.

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:

Apply proposed fix for CVE-2205-7424.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue fedora DoS fix mingw-libxslt

Change Log

* Sun Jul 27 2025 Sandro Mani - 1.1.43-3 - Apply proposed fix for CVE-2025-7424 * Thu Jul 24 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.1.43-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2379267 - CVE-2025-7424 mingw-libxslt: Type confusion in xmlNode.psvi between stylesheet and source nodes [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2379267 [ 2 ] Bug #2379270 - CVE-2025-7424 mingw-libxslt: Type confusion in xmlNode.psvi between stylesheet and source nodes [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2379270

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-29d4b5b927' 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: mingw-libxslt
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 1.1.43
Release: 3.fc41
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Summary: MinGW Windows Library providing the Gnome XSLT engine

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security advisory security issue fedora DoS fix mingw-libxslt

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