Inappropriate coding practices In nokogiri
Description
Nokogiri update packaged libxml2 to v2.12.5 to resolve CVE-2024-25062
Summary
Nokogiri upgrades its dependency libxml2 as follows:
Nokogiri v1.15.6 upgrades libxml2 to 2.11.7 from 2.11.6
Nokogiri v1.16.2 upgrades libxml2 to 2.12.5 from 2.12.4
libxml2 v2.11.7 and v2.12.5 address the following vulnerability:
CVE-2024-25062 / https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-25062
Please note that this advisory only applies to the CRuby implementation of Nokogiri, and only if the packaged libraries are being used. If you've overridden defaults at installation time to use system libraries instead of packaged libraries, you should instead pay attention to your distro's libxml2 release announcements.
JRuby users are not affected.
Mitigation
Upgrade to Nokogiri ~> 1.15.6 or >= 1.16.2.
Users who are unable to upgrade Nokogiri may also choose a more complicated mitigation: compile and link Nokogiri against patched external libxml2 libraries which will also address these same issues.
Impact
From the CVE description, this issue applies to the xmlTextReader module (which underlies Nokogiri::XML::Reader):
When using the XML Reader interface with DTD validation and XInclude expansion enabled, processing crafted XML documents can lead to an xmlValidatePopElement use-after-free.
Timeline
2024-02-04 10:35 EST - this GHSA is drafted without complete details about when the upstream issue was introduced; a request is made of libxml2 maintainers for more detailed information
2024-02-04 10:48 EST - updated GHSA to reflect libxml2 maintainers' confirmation of affected versions
2024-02-04 11:54 EST - v1.16.2 published, this GHSA made public
2024-02-05 10:18 EST - updated with MITRE link to the CVE information, and updated "Impact" section
2024-03-16 09:03 EDT - v1.15.6 published (see discussion at https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/discussions/3146), updated mitigation information
2024-03-18 22:12 EDT - update "affected products" range with v1.15.6 information
Update Impact
Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.
Ecosystem | Package | Affected version | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|---|
 rubygems | 1.16.2, 1.15.6 |
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