USN-3271-1

Holger Fuhrmannek discovered an integer overflow in the xsltAddTextString() function in Libxslt. An attacker could use this to craft a malicious document that, when opened, could cause a denial of service (application crash) or possible execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-5029)

Nicolas Gregoire discovered that Libxslt mishandled namespace nodes. An attacker could use this to craft a malicious document that, when opened, could cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbtrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-1683)

Sebastian Apelt discovered that a use-after-error existed in the xsltDocumentFunctionLoadDocument() function in Libxslt. An attacker could use this to craft a malicious document that, when opened, could cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-1841)

It was discovered that a type confusion error existed in the xsltStylePreCompute() function in Libxslt. An attacker could use this to craft a malicious XML file that, when opened, caused a denial of service (application crash). This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-7995)

Nicolas Gregoire discovered the Libxslt mishandled the 'i' and 'a' format tokens for xsl:number data. An attacker could use this to craft a malicious document that, when opened, could cause a denial of service (application crash). This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-1684)

It was discovered that the xsltFormatNumberConversion() function in Libxslt did not properly handle empty decimal separators. An attacker could use this to craft a malicious document that, when opened, could cause a denial of service (application crash). This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-4738)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libxslt

Package

Name: libxslt
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libxslt@1.1.28-2ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.1.28-2ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

1.*

1.1.28-2

1.1.28-2build1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libxslt1-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.1.28-2ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libxslt1.1",
            "binary_version": "1.1.28-2ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python-libxslt1",
            "binary_version": "1.1.28-2ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "xsltproc",
            "binary_version": "1.1.28-2ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "low",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2015-7995"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2016-1683"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2016-1684"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2016-1841"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2016-4738"
        },
        {
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2017-5029"
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libxslt