RHSA-2025:4098 - Security Advisory

Topic

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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: Use-After-Free in libxslt numbers.c (CVE-2025-24855)
• libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt (xsltGetInheritedNsList) (CVE-2024-55549)

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.

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 - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2352483 - CVE-2025-24855 libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt numbers.c
• BZ - 2352484 - CVE-2024-55549 libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt (xsltGetInheritedNsList)
• RHEL-87781 - RHSA-2025:3612 (libxslt-1.1.28-8.el7_9) is missing patches

CVEs

• CVE-2024-55549
• CVE-2025-24855

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important