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A security vulnerability has been identified in libxslt, a library for transforming XML files into other textual formats. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-55549, affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support and related systems. The issue was discovered and disclosed on April 7, 2025, impacting libxslt version 1.1.34-11 (Red Hat Advisory).
The vulnerability is characterized as a Use-After-Free issue in the libxslt function xsltGetInheritedNsList. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important, indicating a significant severity level (Red Hat Advisory).
The vulnerability affects the libxslt library, which is crucial for XML file transformations into various formats including HTML, plain text, and other XML representations using XSLT stylesheet transformation mechanisms (Red Hat Advisory).
Red Hat has released security updates to address this vulnerability. Users are advised to update to libxslt version 1.1.34-11.el92 across all affected platforms including x8664, s390x, ppc64le, and aarch64 architectures (Red Hat Advisory).
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