CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-7995

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2015-11-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-11-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The xsltStylePreCompute function in preproc.c in libxslt 1.1.28 does not check if the parent node is an element, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted XML file, related to a "type confusion" issue.

Affected configurations

• apple iphone os (<= 9.2) • apple mac os x (<= 10.11.2) • apple tvos (<= 9.1) • apple watchos (<= 2.1) • xmlsoft libxslt (<= 1.1.28)

References