Fedora 36 update for rubygem-nokogiri



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2022-23476
CWE-ID CWE-476
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Fedora
Operating systems & Components / Operating system

rubygem-nokogiri
Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component

Vendor Fedoraproject

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) NULL pointer dereference

EUVDB-ID: #VU70042

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23476

CWE-ID: CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the Nokogiri::XML::Reader#attribute_hash method when parsing input returned from "xmlTextReaderExpand". A remote attacker can pass specially crafted XML input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's repository.

Vulnerable software versions

Fedora: 36

rubygem-nokogiri: before 1.13.10-1.fc36

CPE2.3 External links

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-acff3f54b2


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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