RHSA-2020:4005 — Security Advisory

An update for libxslt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

libxslt is a library for transforming XML files into other textual formats (including HTML, plain text, and other XML representations of the underlying data) using the standard XSLT stylesheet transformation mechanism.

Security Fix(es):

• libxslt: xsltCheckRead and xsltCheckWrite routines security bypass by crafted URL (CVE-2019-11068)

• libxslt: use after free in xsltCopyText in transform.c could lead to information disclosure (CVE-2019-18197)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.