HIGH 7.5 RubyGems
Denial of service or RCE from libxml2 and libxslt
GHSA-7hp2-xwpj-95jq · CVE-2015-8806
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Description
Nokogiri is affected by series of vulnerabilities in libxml2 and libxslt, which are libraries Nokogiri depends on. It was discovered that libxml2 and libxslt incorrectly handled certain malformed documents, which can allow malicious users to cause issues ranging from denial of service to remote code execution attacks.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8806
- WEB https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1473
- WEB https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749115
- WEB https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2015-8806.yml
- PACKAGE https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri
- WEB https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37
- WEB https://web.archive.org/web/20160928171015/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82071
- WEB https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3593
- WEB http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/02/03/5
- WEB http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- WEB http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2994-1
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