GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-jxjr-5h69-qw3w Heap-based buffer overflow in nokogiri
MEDIUM
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- 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
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7499 advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281925 web
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=28cd9cb747a94483f4aea7f0968d202c20bb4cfc web
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=35bcb1d758ed70aa7b257c9c3b3ff55e54e3d0da web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jxjr-5h69-qw3w advisory
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2015-7499.yml web
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/Dy7YiKb_pMM web
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37 web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210724022841/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79509 web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20211205133229/https://securitytracker.com/id/1034243 web
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00120.html web
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00031.html web
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2549.html web
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2550.html web
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3430 web
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2834-1 web
- http://xmlsoft.org/news.html web