GHSA-242x-7cm6-4w8jHighCVSS 7.5

Nokogiri affected by libxslt Use of Uninitialized Resource/Use After Free vulnerability

Published
May 24, 2022
Last Modified
June 9, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

In xsltCopyText in transform.c in libxslt 1.1.33, 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.

Nokogiri prior to version 1.10.5 contains a vulnerable version of libxslt. Nokogiri version 1.10.5 upgrades the dependency to libxslt 1.1.34, which contains a patch for this issue.

🎯 Affected products1

  • rubygems/nokogiri:< 1.10.5

🔗 References (20)