Synopsis

Moderate: libxslt security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for libxslt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

libxslt is a library for transforming XML files into other textual formats (including HTML, plain text, and other XML representations of the underlying data) using the standard XSLT stylesheet transformation mechanism.

Security Fix(es):

• libxslt: xsltCheckRead and xsltCheckWrite routines security bypass by crafted URL (CVE-2019-11068)
• libxslt: use after free in xsltCopyText in transform.c could lead to information disclosure (CVE-2019-18197)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1709697 - CVE-2019-11068 libxslt: xsltCheckRead and xsltCheckWrite routines security bypass by crafted URL
• BZ - 1770768 - CVE-2019-18197 libxslt: use after free in xsltCopyText in transform.c could lead to information disclosure

CVEs

• CVE-2019-11068
• CVE-2019-18197

References