CVE-2019-13117
medium
CVSS v3
5.3
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.3
Description
In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, an xsl:number with certain format strings could lead to a uninitialized read in xsltNumberFormatInsertNumbers. This could allow an attacker to discern whether a byte on the stack contains the characters A, a, I, i, or 0, or any other character.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
63%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Fedora Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 15.1 | Affected | — |
| — | Affected | — |
Ubuntu Affected 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 19.10 | Affected | — |
| 19.04 | Affected | — |
| 18.04 | Affected | — |
| 16.04 | Affected | — |
| 14.04 | Affected | — |
| 12.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.1.32-2.1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.1.32-2.1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.1.32-2.1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.1.32-2.1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.1.32-2.1 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
References
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1943
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-13117.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-13117
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13117
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=14471
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2019-13117.yml
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/commit/c5eb6cf3aba0af048596106ed839b4ae17ecbcb1
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00020.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IOYJKXPQCUNBMMQJWYXOR6QRUJZHEDRZ
- https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase-detail/5631739747106816
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190806-0004
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200122-0003
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4164-1
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00062.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/11/17/2
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IOYJKXPQCUNBMMQJWYXOR6QRUJZHEDRZ/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190806-0004/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200122-0003/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4164-1/
CWEs
CWE-908
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.