CVE-2024-41123
REXML DoS vulnerability
Summary
REXML DoS vulnerability
Original description
The description as published by the source.
REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]>. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2024-41123 ruby-rexml Fixed in: 3.3.9-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-41123 ruby2.7 Fixed in: 2.7.4-1+deb11u3
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41123 jruby
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory security.netapp.com
- web lists.debian.org
- web ruby-lang.org