CVE-2025-24855

Publication date 14 March 2025

Last updated 20 March 2025

Ubuntu priority

numbers.c in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free because, in nested XPath evaluations, an XPath context node can be modified but never restored. This is related to xsltNumberFormatGetValue, xsltEvalXPathPredicate, xsltEvalXPathStringNs, and xsltComputeSortResultInternal.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libxslt	24.10 oracular	Fixed 1.1.39-0exp1ubuntu1.2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.1.39-0exp1ubuntu0.24.04.2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.1.34-4ubuntu0.22.04.3
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.1.34-4ubuntu0.20.04.3
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libxslt	Upstream: c7c7f1f

References

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Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7361-1
Libxslt vulnerability
20 March 2025

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-24855