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LIN9-4045 : Security Advisory - libxslt - CVE-2017-5029

Created: Apr 26, 2017    Updated: May 29, 2018
Resolved Date: Aug 10, 2017
Found In Version: 9.0.0.5
Fix Version: 9.0.0.7
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 9
Component/s: Userspace

Description

The xsltAddTextString function in transform.c in libxslt 1.1.29, as used in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows, and Linux and 57.0.2987.108 for Android, lacked a check for integer overflow during a size calculation, which allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory write via a crafted HTML page.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5029

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