USN-4164-1: Libxslt vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 19.10
• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• libxslt - XSLT processing library

Details

It was discovered that Libxslt incorrectly handled certain documents.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.
This issue not affected Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2019-13117, CVE-2019-13118)

It was discovered that Libxslt incorrectly handled certain documents.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2019-18197)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.10

• libxslt1.1 - 1.1.33-0ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 19.04

• libxslt1.1 - 1.1.32-2ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 18.04

• libxslt1.1 - 1.1.29-5ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 16.04

• libxslt1.1 - 1.1.28-2.1ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 14.04

• libxslt1.1 - 1.1.28-2ubuntu0.2+esm1
  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 12.04

• libxslt1.1 - 1.1.26-8ubuntu1.6

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2019-13117
• CVE-2019-13118
• CVE-2019-18197