Gentoo: GLSA-202006-05: Nokogiri: Command injection
Summary
A command injection vulnerability in Nokogiri allows commands to be executed in a subprocess by Ruby's Kernel.open method. Processes are vulnerable only if the undocumented method Nokogiri::CSS::Tokenizer#load_file is being passed untrusted user input.
Resolution
All Nokogiri users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/nokogiri-1.10.4"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2019-5477 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5477 [ 2 ] Upstream bug https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1915
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-05
Concerns
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.
Background
Nokogiri is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser.
Affected Packages
------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-ruby/nokogiri < 1.10.4 >= 1.10.4
Impact
===== A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.
Workaround
Avoid calling the undocumented method Nokogiri::CSS::Tokenizer#load_file with untrusted user input.