Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2025-2823
Advisory Released Date: 2025-04-16
Advisory Updated Date: 2025-04-16
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
xsltGetInheritedNsList in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free issue related to exclusion of result prefixes. (CVE-2024-55549)
numbers.c in libxslt before 1.1.43 has a use-after-free because, in nested XPath evaluations, an XPath context node can be modified but never restored. This is related to xsltNumberFormatGetValue, xsltEvalXPathPredicate, xsltEvalXPathStringNs, and xsltComputeSortResultInternal. (CVE-2025-24855)
Affected Packages:
libxslt
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libxslt to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
libxslt-1.1.28-6.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
libxslt-devel-1.1.28-6.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
libxslt-python-1.1.28-6.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
libxslt-debuginfo-1.1.28-6.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
i686:
libxslt-1.1.28-6.amzn2.0.3.i686
libxslt-devel-1.1.28-6.amzn2.0.3.i686
libxslt-python-1.1.28-6.amzn2.0.3.i686
libxslt-debuginfo-1.1.28-6.amzn2.0.3.i686
src:
libxslt-1.1.28-6.amzn2.0.3.src
x86_64:
libxslt-1.1.28-6.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
libxslt-devel-1.1.28-6.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
libxslt-python-1.1.28-6.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
libxslt-debuginfo-1.1.28-6.amzn2.0.3.x86_64