CVE-2015-7995

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-7995  

A type confusion vulnerability was discovered in the xsltStylePreCompute() function of libxslt. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this flaw to cause an application using libxslt to crash by tricking the application into processing a specially crafted XSLT document.

A type confusion vulnerability was discovered in the xsltStylePreCompute() function of libxslt. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this flaw to cause an application using libxslt to crash by tricking the application into processing a specially crafted XSLT document.

Find out more about CVE-2015-7995 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 libxslt Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 libxslt Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 libxslt Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7 libxslt Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libxslt Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libxslt Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libxslt Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank puzzor for reporting this issue.