What is GHSA-8c56-cpmw-89x7?

GHSA-8c56-cpmw-89x7 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Out-of-bounds read in nokogiri

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-8c56-cpmw-89x7 cover?

GHSA-8c56-cpmw-89x7 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2017-9050. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-8c56-cpmw-89x7?

GHSA-8c56-cpmw-89x7 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-8c56-cpmw-89x7?

GHSA-8c56-cpmw-89x7 affects 1 product, including: rubygems/nokogiri:\u003c 1.8.1.

GHSA-8c56-cpmw-89x7HighCVSS 7.5

Out-of-bounds read in nokogiri

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

December 13, 2017

Last Modified

February 1, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2017-9050 →

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products1

rubygems/nokogiri:< 1.8.1

🔗 References (5)

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