[Secure-testing-team] Bug#859796: libxslt: CVE-2015-9019

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: libxslt
Version: 1.1.28-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758400

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for libxslt.

CVE-2015-9019[0]:
| In libxslt 1.1.29 and earlier, the EXSLT math.random function was not
| initialized with a random seed during startup, which could cause usage
| of this function to produce predictable outputs.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-9019
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-9019
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758400
[2] https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=934119

Regards,
Salvatore