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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-24836: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-24836: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/11/2022
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

Nokogiri is an open source XML and HTML library for Ruby. Nokogiri `< v1.13.4` contains an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to detect encoding in HTML documents. Users are advised to upgrade to Nokogiri `>= 1.13.4`. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-ruby-nokogiri

References

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