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Fedora 42: mingw-libxslt 2025-8603e39722 Security Advisory Updates

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Calendar Grey March 28, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 42 updates mingw-libxslt 1.1.43 to fix Use-After-Free issues from CVE-2024-55549 and CVE-2025-24855.
Update to 1.1.43, fixes CVE-2024-55549 and CVE-2025-24855.

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:

Update to 1.1.43, fixes CVE-2024-55549 and CVE-2025-24855.

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security advisory update Fedora use-after-free mingw-libxslt 2025

Change Log

* Mon Mar 17 2025 Sandro Mani - 1.1.43-1 - Update to 1.1.43

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2352508 - CVE-2025-24855 mingw-libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt numbers.c [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2352508 [ 2 ] Bug #2352511 - CVE-2025-24855 mingw-libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt numbers.c [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2352511 [ 3 ] Bug #2352518 - CVE-2024-55549 mingw-libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt (xsltGetInheritedNsList) [fedora-40] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2352518 [ 4 ] Bug #2352521 - CVE-2024-55549 mingw-libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt (xsltGetInheritedNsList) [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2352521

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-8603e39722' 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 42
Version: 1.1.43
Release: 1.fc42
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Summary: MinGW Windows Library providing the Gnome XSLT engine

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security advisory update Fedora use-after-free mingw-libxslt 2025

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