GHSA-6qvp-r6r3-9p7hHighCVSS 7.5
Nokogiri NULL Pointer Dereference
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application.
🎯 Affected products1
- rubygems/nokogiri:< 1.8.5
🔗 References (13)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14404
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1543
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901817
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1595985
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/issues/10
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00035.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1785
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2018-14404.yml
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190719-0002
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-2
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6qvp-r6r3-9p7h