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CVE-2019-13118

libxslt Type Confusion vulnerability that affects Nokogiri

Description

In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a type holding grouping characters of an xsl:number instruction was too narrow and an invalid character/length combination could be passed to xsltNumberFormatDecimal, leading to a read of uninitialized stack data.

Nokogiri prior to version 1.10.5 used a vulnerable version of libxslt. Nokogiri 1.10.5 updated libxslt to version 1.1.34 to address this and other vulnerabilities in libxslt.

Patch Available

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Score
7.5
Severity
High
Ecosystem
RPM
Publish Date
May 24, 2022
Modified Date
June 9, 2026
Score Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Versions