A vulnerabiliy was found in xsltCopyText in transform.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a pointer variable isn't reset under certain circumstances. If the relevant memory area happened to be freed and reused in a certain way, a bounds check could fail and memory outside a buffer could be written to, or uninitialized data could be disclosed.

Reference: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191031-0004/ https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15746 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15768 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15914 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/commit/2232473733b7313d67de8836ea3b29eec6e8e285

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.

In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a type holding grouping characters of an xsl:number instruction was too narrow and an invalid character/length combination could be passed to xsltNumberFormatDecimal, leading to a read of uninitialized stack data.

Last updated 25 August 2025