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Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

CVE-2019-13118

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

In "numbers.c" in libxslt before 1.1.34-rc2, 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.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-843 - Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

The program allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.

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