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libxslt: Out-of-bounds read at xmlGetLineNoInternal()

Published Jul 22, 2016

Description

libxslt in Apple iOS before 9.3.3, OS X before 10.11.6, iTunes before 12.4.2 on Windows, iCloud before 5.2.1 on Windows, tvOS before 9.2.2, and watchOS before 2.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4607, CVE-2016-4608, CVE-2016-4610, and CVE-2016-4612.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

Red Hat OpenStack will consume fixes from the base Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System. Therefore the package provided by Red Hat OpenStack has been marked as will not fix. This issue affects the version of libxslt as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7 and was rated as having Moderated security impact by the Red Hat Product Security. An eventual update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 may address this issue. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Moderate, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

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Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

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Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner apple
Published Jul 22, 2016
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved May 11, 2016
Link CVE-2016-4609
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2016-4609
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jul 21, 2016
Links CVE-2016-4609 - Bugzilla