sparklemotion/nokogiri · Security
Nokogiri implementation of libxslt lacks integer overflow checks
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-pf6m-fxpq-fg8v
- CVE ID
- CVE-2017-5029
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 8.8 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
CWEs
- CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5029 ↗
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=08ab2774b870de1c7b5a48693df75e8154addae5 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pf6m-fxpq-fg8v ↗
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1634 ↗
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2017-5029.yml ↗
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5029 ↗
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3271-1 ↗