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GHSA-7hp2-xwpj-95jq

Denial of service or RCE from libxml2 and libxslt

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2015-8806

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
RubyGems nokogiri >= 1.6.0, < 1.6.8 1.6.8

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Nokogiri is affected by series of vulnerabilities in libxml2 and libxslt, which are libraries Nokogiri depends on. It was discovered that libxml2 and libxslt incorrectly handled certain malformed documents, which can allow malicious users to cause issues ranging from denial of service to remote code execution attacks.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.