CVE-2021-3517

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in gem/nokogiri

Identifiers

CVE-2021-3517

Package Slug

gem/nokogiri

Vulnerability

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Description

There is a flaw in the xml entity encoding functionality of libxml2. The most likely impact of this flaw is to application availability, with some potential impact to confidentiality and integrity if an attacker is able to use memory information to further exploit the application.

Affected Versions

All versions before 1.14.4

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.14.4 or above.

Last Modified

2021-07-21

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