sparklemotion/nokogiri · Security
libxml as used in Nokogiri has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-7553-jr98-vx47
- CVE ID
- CVE-2020-7595
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
CWEs
- CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7595 ↗
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1992 ↗
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/0e1a49c89076 ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/545SPOI3ZPPNPX4TFRIVE4JVRTJRKULL/ ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4274-1/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5R55ZR52RMBX24TQTWHCIWKJVRV6YAWI/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/JDPF3AAVKUAKDYFMFKSIQSVVS3EEFPQH/ ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00047.html ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200702-0005/ ↗
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html ↗
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-292794.pdf ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-04 ↗
- https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-103-08 ↗
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html ↗
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html ↗
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html ↗
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2020-7595.yml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7553-jr98-vx47 ↗