CVE-2015-7995

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The xsltStylePreCompute function in preproc.c in libxslt 1.1.28 does not check if the parent node is an element, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted XML file, related to a "type confusion" issue.

Affected products

Apple Iphone Os: through 9.2
macOS: through 10.11.2
Apple tvOS: through 9.1
Apple watchOS: through 2.1
xmlsoft libxslt: through 1.1.28

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jan/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jan/msg00003.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jan/msg00005.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-05/msg00123.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3605
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/27/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/28/4
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77325
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034736
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038623

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