CVE-2024-39908 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
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES154-RUBY25DEVEL-8322792
  • published2 Nov 2024
  • disclosed1 Nov 2024

Introduced: 1 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-39908  (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 3.3.1 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as &lt;, 0 and %&gt;. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you many be impacted to these vulnerabilities. The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid parsing untrusted XML strings.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1