CVE-2019-13118

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

CVE-2019-13118 is fixed in 4 products on 2 platforms, first by libxslt1.1 1.1.29-5ubuntu0.2, released October 18, 2019. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

RoutineFixed on 2 platforms
CVSS
5.3
Low
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0515
92nd percentile

In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, 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.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Windows apps
iTunes 12.11.4.15 iTunes 12.11.4.15 Aug 4, 2021
Linux
libxslt1.1 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1.1.29-5ubuntu0.2 libxslt1.1 1.1.29-5ubuntu0.2 Oct 18, 2019
python-libxslt1 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1.1.29-5ubuntu0.2 python-libxslt1 1.1.29-5ubuntu0.2 Oct 18, 2019
xsltproc · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1.1.29-5ubuntu0.2 xsltproc 1.1.29-5ubuntu0.2 Oct 18, 2019

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