CVE-2024-55549

Publication date 14 March 2025

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

xsltGetInheritedNsList in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free issue related to exclusion of result prefixes.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libxslt	25.04 plucky	Fixed 1.1.39-0exp1ubuntu3
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 1.1.39-0exp1ubuntu1.1
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.1.39-0exp1ubuntu0.24.04.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.1.34-4ubuntu0.22.04.2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.1.34-4ubuntu0.20.04.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Needs evaluation

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libxslt	Upstream: 46041b6

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7357-1
Libxslt vulnerability
19 March 2025

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-55549

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