RHSA-2025:3612 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: libxslt security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · April 7, 2025

Updated · August 22, 2026

Topic

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

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

[Updated 23 May 2025]

CVE-2025-24855 and CVE-2024-55549 were previously incorrectly listed as fixed in this erratum. The CVE list was updated to remove this CVE. No changes have been made to the packages.

Description

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: Use-After-Free in libxslt numbers.c (CVE-2025-24855)

  • libxslt: Use-After-Free in libxslt (xsltGetInheritedNsList) (CVE-2024-55549)

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.

Related CVEs

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