HIGH 7.5 RubyGems
libxml as used in Nokogiri has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation
GHSA-7553-jr98-vx47 · CVE-2020-7595
Published · Modified
Description
xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.
The Nokogiri RubyGem has patched its vendored copy of libxml2 in order to prevent this issue from affecting nokogiri.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7595
- WEB https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1992
- WEB https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- WEB https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- WEB https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- WEB https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- WEB https://usn.ubuntu.com/4274-1
- WEB https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-103-08
- WEB https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200702-0005
- WEB https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-04
- WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JDPF3AAVKUAKDYFMFKSIQSVVS3EEFPQH
- WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5R55ZR52RMBX24TQTWHCIWKJVRV6YAWI
- WEB https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/545SPOI3ZPPNPX4TFRIVE4JVRTJRKULL
- WEB https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
- WEB https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/0e1a49c89076
- PACKAGE https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri
- WEB https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2020-7595.yml
- WEB https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-292794.pdf
- WEB http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00047.html
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