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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-13118: Type Confusion

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-13118: Type Confusion

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
07/01/2019
Created
12/28/2019
Added
12/27/2019
Modified
10/14/2024

Description

In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a type holding grouping characters of an xsl:number instruction was too narrow and an invalid character/length combination could be passed to xsltNumberFormatDecimal, leading to a read of uninitialized stack data.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libxslt

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