Use After Free Affecting nokogiri package, versions <1.18.4
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- published23 Mar 2025
- disclosed14 Mar 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 14 Mar 2025
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How to fix?
Upgrade nokogiri to version 1.18.4 or higher.
Overview
nokogiri is a gem for parsing HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free through the numbers.c component. An attacker can cause memory corruption or execute arbitrary code by exploiting nested XPath evaluations where an XPath context node is modified but not restored.