SB2019070210 - Multiple vulnerabilities in libxslt 



SB2019070210 - Multiple vulnerabilities in libxslt

Published: July 2, 2019 Updated: October 19, 2019

Security Bulletin ID SB2019070210
Severity
High
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13118)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to uninitialized stack data exposure in numbers.c in libxslt library when processing an invalid character/length combination in xsltNumberFormatDecimal. A remote attacker can gain pass specially crafted data to the application using the affected library and gain access to sensitive information.


2) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13117)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to information disclosure in numbers.c in libxslt library where an xsl:number with certain format strings could lead to a uninitialized read in xsltNumberFormatInsertNumbers. A remote attacker can gain knowledge whether a byte on the stack contains the characters A, a, I, i, or 0, or any other character.


3) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-18197)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the xsltCopyText() function in transform.c in libxslt. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted XML document, pass it to the affected application, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.