Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting ruby-nokogiri package, versions <1.13.4-r0
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- published 24 May 2022
- disclosed 11 Apr 2022
Introduced: 11 Apr 2022
CVE-2022-24836 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.16 ruby-nokogiri to version 1.13.4-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-nokogiri package and not the ruby-nokogiri package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.16 relevant fixed versions and status.
Nokogiri is an open source XML and HTML library for Ruby. Nokogiri < v1.13.4 contains an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to detect encoding in HTML documents. Users are advised to upgrade to Nokogiri >= 1.13.4. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
References
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-crjr-9rc5-ghw8
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/commit/e444525ef1634b675cd1cf52d39f4320ef0aecfd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XMDCWRQXJQ3TFSETPCEFMQ6RR6ME5UA3/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OUPLBUZVM4WPFSXBEP2JS3R6LMKRTLFC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6DHCOWMA5PQTIQIMDENA7R2Y5BDYAIYM/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00013.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-29
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00018.html
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213532
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Dec/23
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6DHCOWMA5PQTIQIMDENA7R2Y5BDYAIYM/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OUPLBUZVM4WPFSXBEP2JS3R6LMKRTLFC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XMDCWRQXJQ3TFSETPCEFMQ6RR6ME5UA3/