CVE-2022-24839: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 22, 2023

org.cyberneko.html is an html parser written in Java. The fork of org.cyberneko.html used by Nokogiri (Rubygem) raises a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception when parsing ill-formed HTML markup. Users are advised to upgrade to >= 1.9.22.noko2. Note: The upstream library org.cyberneko.html is no longer maintained. Nokogiri uses its own fork of this library located at https://github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml and this CVE applies only to that fork. Other forks of nekohtml may have a similar vulnerability.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv
github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/commit/a800fce3b079def130ed42a408ff1d09f89e773d
github.com/sparklemotion/nekohtml/security/advisories/GHSA-9849-p7jc-9rmv
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24839
www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

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