Ubuntu 22.04 LTS USN-5575-1 Moderate: Libxslt Code Exposure

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August 22, 2022

Several security issues were fixed in Libxslt.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Libxslt.

Software Description:

- libxslt: XSLT processing library

Details:

Nicolas Grégoire discovered that Libxslt incorrectly handled certain XML.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information

or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

(CVE-2019-5815)

Alexey Neyman incorrectly handled certain HTML pages.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information

or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-30560)

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate ubuntu libxslt code exposure

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
  libxslt1.1                      1.1.34-4ubuntu0.22.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  libxslt1.1                      1.1.34-4ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libxslt1.1                      1.1.29-5ubuntu0.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.