GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-jxjr-5h69-qw3w Heap-based buffer overflow in nokogiri

MEDIUM Published 2018-09-17 Modified 2023-07-05 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2015-7499
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
nokogiri
Severity
Moderate
Weaknesses
CWE-119
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• RubyGems nokogiri: >= 1.6.0, < 1.6.7.2 → fixed in 1.6.7.2

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlGROW function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3. A remote attacker could provide a specially crafted XML or HTML file that, when processed by an application using libxml2, would cause that application to use an excessive amount of CPU, leak potentially sensitive information, or crash the application.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2015-7499 Heap-based buffer overflow in the xmlGROW function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References