CVE-2015-7995

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

CWE-843: Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

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.

CWE-843: Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-11-17 15:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-03-08 16:06:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X

References

APPLE-SA-2016-03-21-2

openSUSE-SU-2016:1439

DSA-3605

[oss-security] 20151027 CVE request: libxslt xsltStylePreCompute() type confusion DoS

[oss-security] 20151028 Re: CVE request: libxslt xsltStylePreCompute() type confusion DoS

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html

77325

1034736

1038623

SSA:2016-148-02

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257962

Exploit

https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=7ca19df892ca22d9314e95d59ce2abdeff46b617

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05111017

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05158380

https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2015-7995

https://support.apple.com/HT205729

https://support.apple.com/HT205731

https://support.apple.com/HT205732

https://support.apple.com/HT206168

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