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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLThjNTYtY3Btdy04OXg3

Out-of-bounds read in nokogiri

libxml2 20904-GITv2.9.4-16-g0741801 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer over-read in the xmlDictAddString function in dict.c. This vulnerability causes programs that use libxml2, such as PHP, to crash. This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1839. GitHub is notifying on nokogiri as uses libxml2.

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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: over 5 years ago
Updated: 4 months ago

CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-8c56-cpmw-89x7, CVE-2017-9050
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9050
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-01
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3952
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/15/1
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8c56-cpmw-89x7

Affected Packages