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Improper resource allocation - Buffer overflow In nokogiri

Description

Nokogiri updates packaged libxml2 to v2.12.7 to resolve CVE-2024-34459

Summary

Nokogiri v1.16.5 upgrades its dependency libxml2 to 2.12.7 from 2.12.6.

libxml2 v2.12.7 addresses CVE-2024-34459:

Impact

There is no impact to Nokogiri users because the issue is present only in libxml2's xmllint tool which Nokogiri does not provide or expose.

Timeline

    2024-05-13 05:57 EDT, libxml2 2.12.7 release is announced

    2024-05-13 08:30 EDT, nokogiri maintainers begin triage

    2024-05-13 10:05 EDT, nokogiri v1.16.5 is released and this GHSA made public

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
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Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. GHSA-r95h-9x8f-r3f72. GCVE-GHSA-r95h-9x8f-r3f7

References

1. https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-r95h-9x8f-r3f72. https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/GHSA-r95h-9x8f-r3f7.yml3. https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/releases/tag/v1.16.54. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/2876ac535. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/720

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