GHSA-7553-jr98-vx47
Vulnerability from github
Published
2020-02-24 19:12
Modified
2022-04-22 17:29
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
libxml as used in Nokogiri has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation
Details

xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation. The Nokogiri RubyGem has patched its vendored copy of libxml2 in order to prevent this issue from affecting nokogiri.

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{
   affected: [
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "RubyGems",
            name: "nokogiri",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "1.10.8",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
   ],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2020-7595",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-835",
      ],
      github_reviewed: true,
      github_reviewed_at: "2020-02-18T18:58:16Z",
      nvd_published_at: "2020-01-21T23:15:00Z",
      severity: "HIGH",
   },
   details: "xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.\nThe Nokogiri RubyGem has patched its vendored copy of libxml2 in order to prevent this issue from affecting nokogiri.",
   id: "GHSA-7553-jr98-vx47",
   modified: "2022-04-22T17:29:45Z",
   published: "2020-02-24T19:12:36Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7595",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1992",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4274-1",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-103-08",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200702-0005",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-04",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JDPF3AAVKUAKDYFMFKSIQSVVS3EEFPQH",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5R55ZR52RMBX24TQTWHCIWKJVRV6YAWI",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/545SPOI3ZPPNPX4TFRIVE4JVRTJRKULL",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/0e1a49c89076",
      },
      {
         type: "PACKAGE",
         url: "https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2020-7595.yml",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-292794.pdf",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00047.html",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
   summary: "libxml as used in Nokogiri has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation",
}


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