UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7995

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libxslt

Package

Name: libxslt
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libxslt@1.1.28-2ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.1.28-2ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.28-2

1.1.28-2build1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.1.28-2ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libxslt1-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.1.28-2ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libxslt1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.1.28-2ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "python-libxslt1"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.1.28-2ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "xsltproc"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}