CVE-2024-35176 Affecting ruby2.5-devel package, versions <2.5.9-150000.4.32.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-RUBY25DEVEL-8322727
  • published2 Nov 2024
  • disclosed1 Nov 2024

Introduced: 1 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-35176  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 ruby2.5-devel to version 2.5.9-150000.4.32.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby2.5-devel package and not the ruby2.5-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 &lt;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.

CVSS Scores

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