Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rubygem-rdoc (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published5 Aug 2025
- disclosed16 May 2024
Introduced: 16 May 2024
CVE-2024-35176 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem-rdoc package and not the rubygem-rdoc package as distributed by Centos.
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a denial of service vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many <s in an attribute value. Those who need to parse untrusted XMLs may be impacted to this vulnerability. The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. As a workaround, don't parse untrusted XMLs.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2280894
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-35176
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001/
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb
- https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176