GHSA-882p-jqgm-f45g
Uncontrolled resource consumption in nokogiri
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2017-18258
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
The xz_head function in xzlib.c in libxml2 before 2.9.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted LZMA file, because the decoder functionality does not restrict memory usage to what is required for a legitimate file.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| RubyGems · nokogiri | introduced 0, fixed 1.8.2 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18258 ADVISORY
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=e2a9122b8dde53d320750451e9907a7dcb2ca8bb WEB
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-882p-jqgm-f45g ADVISORY
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2017-18258.yml WEB
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10284 WEB
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00035.html WEB
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html WEB
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190719-0001 WEB
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1 WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |