CVE-2019-18197: Use After Free
(updated )
In xsltCopyText
in transform.c
in libxslt, which is used by nokogiri, a pointer variable isn’t reset under certain circumstances. If the relevant memory area happened to be freed and reused in a certain way, a bounds check could fail and memory outside a buffer could be written to, or uninitialized data could be disclosed.
References
Detect and mitigate CVE-2019-18197 with GitLab Dependency Scanning
Secure your software supply chain by verifying that all open source dependencies used in your projects contain no disclosed vulnerabilities. Learn more about Dependency Scanning →