HIGH 8.8 RubyGems
Nokogiri implementation of libxslt lacks integer overflow checks
GHSA-pf6m-fxpq-fg8v · CVE-2017-5029
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Description
The xsltAddTextString function in transform.c in libxslt 1.1.29, as used in Nokogiri prior to 1.7.2, lacked a check for integer overflow during a size calculation, which allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory write via a crafted HTML page.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5029
- WEB https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1634
- WEB https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=08ab2774b870de1c7b5a48693df75e8154addae5
- ADVISORY https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pf6m-fxpq-fg8v
- WEB https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2017-5029.yml
- PACKAGE https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri
- WEB https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5029
- WEB https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3271-1
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