Vigil@nce - libxslt: out-of-bounds memory reading via xsltNumberFormatDecimal
September 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: iOS by Apple, iPhone, Mac OS X, Debian, SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on service, denial
of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 18/07/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address via
xsltNumberFormatDecimal() of libxslt, in order to trigger a denial
of service, or to obtain sensitive information.
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