ALPINE-CVE-2019-18197
Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 0
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Published: 18 Oct 2019, 21:15
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:45
Vulnerability Summary
Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100 CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected
Timeline
18 Oct 2019, 21:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:45
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated
Description
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.
CVSS Metrics
- v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Systems
- alpine•libxslt
< 1.1.33-r2 | < 1.1.33-r3 | < 1.1.33-r3 | < 1.1.33-r3 | < 1.1.33-r3 | < 1.1.33-r3 | < 1.1.33-r3 | < 1.1.33-r3 | < 1.1.33-r3 | < 1.1.33-r3 | < 1.1.33-r3 | < 1.1.33-r3 | < 1.1.33-r3 | < 1.1.33-r3 | < 1.1.31-r2 | < 1.1.33-r2 | < 1.1.33-r2