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Alma Linux: CVE-2025-24855: Important: libxslt security update (ALSA-2025-3107)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2025-24855: Important: libxslt security update (ALSA-2025-3107)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/14/2025
Created
03/27/2025
Added
03/26/2025
Modified
03/26/2025

Description

numbers.c in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free because, in nested XPath evaluations, an XPath context node can be modified but never restored. This is related to xsltNumberFormatGetValue, xsltEvalXPathPredicate, xsltEvalXPathStringNs, and xsltComputeSortResultInternal.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-libxslt
  • alma-upgrade-libxslt-devel

References

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