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CVE-2015-8806: Denial of service or RCE from libxml2 and libxslt

April 13, 2016 (updated June 30, 2017)

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

  • www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2994-1/
  • github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/03d402212707bd5dfa0a21b7de5e91a7f9d90028
  • github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1473
  • mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2016-May/msg00023.html

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.6.8

Fixed versions

  • 1.6.8

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.6.8 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Source file

gem/nokogiri/CVE-2015-8806.yml

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