GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-pxvg-2qj5-37jq Nokogiri updates packaged libxml2 to v2.10.4 to resolve multiple CVEs
MEDIUM
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- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- nokogiri
- Severity
- Moderate
- Reviewed
- 2023-04-11
Affected packages
• RubyGems nokogiri: < 1.14.3 → fixed in 1.14.3
Description
Summary
Nokogiri v1.14.3 upgrades the packaged version of its dependency libxml2 to v2.10.4 from v2.10.3.
libxml2 v2.10.4 addresses the following known vulnerabilities:
• CVE-2023-29469: Hashing of empty dict strings isn't deterministic
• CVE-2023-28484: Fix null deref in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType
• Schemas: Fix null-pointer-deref in xmlSchemaCheckCOSSTDerivedOK
Please note that this advisory only applies to the CRuby implementation of Nokogiri `= 1.14.3`.
Users who are unable to upgrade Nokogiri may also choose a more complicated mitigation: compile and link Nokogiri against external libraries libxml2 `>= 2.10.4` which will also address these same issues.
Impact
No public information has yet been published about the security-related issues other than the upstream commits. Examination of those changesets indicate that the more serious issues relate to libxml2 dereferencing NULL pointers and potentially segfaulting while parsing untrusted inputs.
The commits can be examined at:
• [[CVE-2023-29469] Hashing of empty dict strings isn't deterministic (09a2dd45) · Commits · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/09a2dd453007f9c7205274623acdd73747c22d64)
• [[CVE-2023-28484] Fix null deref in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType (647e072e) · Commits · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/647e072ea0a2f12687fa05c172f4c4713fdb0c4f)
• schemas: Fix null-pointer-deref in xmlSchemaCheckCOSSTDerivedOK (4c6922f7) · Commits · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab
References
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-pxvg-2qj5-37jq web
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-28484 web
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-29469 web
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri package
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/09a2dd453007f9c7205274623acdd73747c22d64 web
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/4c6922f763ad958c48ff66f82823ae21f2e92ee6 web
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/647e072ea0a2f12687fa05c172f4c4713fdb0c4f web
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/releases/v2.10.4 web