GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-8c56-cpmw-89x7 Out-of-bounds read in nokogiri

HIGH Published 2017-12-13 Modified 2021-06-30 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2017-9050
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
nokogiri
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-125
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• RubyGems nokogiri: < 1.8.1 → fixed in 1.8.1

Description

libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the xmlDictAddString function in dict.c. This vulnerability causes programs that use libxml2, such as PHP, to crash. This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1839. GitHub is notifying on nokogiri as uses libxml2.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2017-9050 libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the xmlDictAddString function in dict.c. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References