CVE-2024-41946
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 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.
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-2024-41946 ruby-rexml Fixed in: 3.3.9-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2024-41946 ruby2.7 Fixed in: 2.7.4-1+deb11u3
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41946 jruby
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory security.netapp.com
- patch github.com
- web lists.debian.org
- web ruby-lang.org
- web ruby-lang.org