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LIN8-1923 : Security Advisory - libxslt - CVE-2015-7995

Created: Nov 29, 2015    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Jan 5, 2016
Previous ID: LIN7-5222
Found In Version: 8.0
Fix Version: 8.0.0.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Userspace

Description

The xsltStylePreCompute function in preproc.c in libxslt 1.1.28 does not check if the parent node is an element, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted XML file, related to a type confusion issue.<a href=http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/843.html>CWE-843: Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')</a>

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-7995

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