Re: CVE Request: rubygem-nokogiri Multiple DoS vulnerabilities

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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On 12/26/2013 12:47 PM, Ratul Gupta wrote:

I double checked these issues, they are subtly different, one is
infinite loop from error parsing and the other fails to apply limits.

> Hello,
>
> 1) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046663
>
> Nokogiri gem for Ruby was found to be affected by a DoS
> vulnerability, where an error when parsing XML documents can be
> exploited by an attacker to cause an infinite loop and subsequently
> exhaust memory and cause a crash via a specially crafted XML
> document.

Please use CVE-2013-6460 for this issue.

> 2) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046664
>
> Nokogiri gem for Ruby was found to be affected by a DoS
> vulnerability, where an error when parsing XML entities and can be
> exploited to exhaust memory and cause a crash via a specially
> crafted XML document including external entity references.

Please use CVE-2013-6461 for this issue.

> Can CVE's please be assigned to these issues?

Please note original references:

References:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495218

Original Advisory:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/DeJpjTAg1FA




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