CVE-2019-18197

Summary

CVECVE-2019-18197
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-10-18 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC
DescriptionIn xsltCopyText in transform.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a pointer variable isn't reset under certain circumstances. If the relevant memory area happened to be freed and reused in a certain way, a bounds check could fail and memory outside a buffer could be written to, or uninitialized data could be disclosed.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-416 | CWE-908

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxslt 1.1.33 All All All
Application Xmlsoft Libxslt 1.1.33 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2019-18197 Libxslt Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
oss-security - Nokogiri security update v1.10.5 MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
15914 - oss-fuzz - OSS-Fuzz: Fuzzing the planet - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0210-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0189-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 1973-1] libxslt security update MLIST lists.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0233-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org
April 2020 Java Platform Standard Edition Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
USN-4164-1: Libxslt vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:0731-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
15768 - oss-fuzz - OSS-Fuzz: Fuzzing the planet - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
15746 - oss-fuzz - OSS-Fuzz: Fuzzing the planet - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2020 N/A www.oracle.com
Fix dangling pointer in xsltCopyText (22324737) · Commits · GNOME / libxslt · GitLab MISC gitlab.gnome.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 20283 Oracle Database 19c Critical OJVM Patch Update - April 2020
  • 20291 Oracle Database 18c Critical OJVM Patch Update - April 2020
  • 296078 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 16.4.0 Missing (CPUOCT2019)
  • 372444 Tableau Server and Desktop Multiple Vulnerabilities (Important-ADV-2020-009)
  • 373382 Azul Zing Multiple Vulnerabilities(java_apr2020_advisory)
  • 375812 Azul Java Multiple Vulnerabilities Security Update April 2020
  • 377495 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for libxslt (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0160)
  • 377554 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for libxslt (ALINUX3-SA-2022:0062)
  • 377616 F5 BIG-IP Open Java Development Toolkit (OpenJDK) Vulnerability cve-2019-18197 (K10812540)
  • 500353 Alpine Linux Security Update for libxslt
  • 504117 Alpine Linux Security Update for libxslt
  • 770068 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 Security Update (RHSA-2021:0436)
  • 940030 AlmaLinux Security Update for libxslt (ALSA-2020:4464)
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