Urgent Nokogiri Denial of Service Vulnerability in Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA-202408-13
Summary
A denial of service vulnerability has been discovered in Nokogiri.
Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.
Resolution
All Nokogiri users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/nokogiri-1.13.10"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2022-23476
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23476
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202408-13
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.
Synopsis
A vulnerability has been discovered in Nokogiri, which can lead to a
denial of service.
Background
Nokogiri is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser.
Affected Packages
Package Vulnerable Unaffected
----------------- ------------ ------------
dev-ruby/nokogiri < 1.13.10 >= 1.13.10
Impact
Nokogiri fails to check the return value from `xmlTextReaderExpand` in
the method `Nokogiri::XML::Reader#attribute_hash`. This can lead to a
null pointer exception when invalid markup is being parsed. For
applications using `XML::Reader` to parse untrusted inputs, this may
potentially be a vector for a denial of service attack.
Workaround
Users may be able to search their code for calls to either
`XML::Reader#attributes` or `XML::Reader#attribute_hash` to determine if
they are affected.