gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201804-01.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201804-01">
  <title>libxslt: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in libxslt, the worst of
    which may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libxslt</product>
  <announced>2018-04-04</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-04-04</revised>
  <bug>598204</bug>
  <bug>612194</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-libs/libxslt" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.1.30</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.30</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the GNOME project. XSLT is
      an XML language to define transformations for XML.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libxslt. Please review
      the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker, via a crafted HTML page, could possibly execute
      arbitrary code, cause a Denial of Service condition or leak information.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All libxslt users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.30"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4738">CVE-2016-4738</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5029">CVE-2017-5029</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-04-19T05:20:01Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-04-04T01:51:21Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>