PT-2015-7695 · Gnome+3 · Libxslt+3

Puzzor · Published 2015-11-05 · Updated 2026-03-13 · CVE-2015-7995

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libxslt version 1.1.28

Description The issue is related to a "type confusion" problem in the xsltStylePreCompute function, which does not properly check if the parent node is an element. This allows attackers to cause a denial of service by providing a crafted XML file.

Recommendations For libxslt version 1.1.28, consider applying a patch or fix that addresses the type confusion issue in the xsltStylePreCompute function, specifically adding checks to ensure the parent node is an element before proceeding with processing. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-2650

CVE-2015-7995

DLA-514-1

DSA-3605-1

MGASA-2015-0432

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10185-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10549-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11340-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11912-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13165-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14174-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14697-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10356-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1282-1

SUSE-SU-2017:1313-1

SUSE-SU-2017_1282-1

SUSE-SU-2017_1313-1

USN-3271-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Libxslt

References · 101

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257962 · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7995 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10549-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jan/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00123.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3605-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14174-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2026:10356-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0432 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7995 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jan/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2025:14697-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0432.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4738 · Vendor Advisory
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.386546 · Vendor Advisory