SB2022120804 - Denial of service in Nokogiri
Published: December 8, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022120804
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23476)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the Nokogiri::XML::Reader#attribute_hash method when parsing input returned from "xmlTextReaderExpand". A remote attacker can pass specially crafted XML input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/9fe0761c47c0d4270d1a5220cfd25de080350d50
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/85410e38410f670cbbc8c5b00d07b843caee88ce
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-qv4q-mr5r-qprj
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/releases/tag/v1.13.10