CVE-2015-7995 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-7995?

CVE-2015-7995 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Iphone Os, published on 17 Nov 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The xsltStylePreCompute function in preproc.c in libxslt 1.1.28 does not check if the parent node is an element, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted XML file, related to a "type confusion" issue.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7995?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Apple Iphone Os, Apple Mac Os X, Apple Tvos, Apple Watchos, Xmlsoft Libxslt.

How do I fix CVE-2015-7995?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-7995 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7995 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apple Iphone Os

• CVE-2021-30666 Apple iOS WebKit Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2021-30761 Apple iOS WebKit Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2021-30762 Apple iOS WebKit Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2016-4657 Apple iOS Webkit Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-7286 Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Apple Iphone Os vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7995, GHSA-57m4-4wjx-3w7c, MGASA-2015-0432, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7995, openSUSE-SU-2024:10185-1.