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Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-41123: Medium priority package update for ruby3.2

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 1, 2024
Added
Apr 2, 2025
Modified
Jul 4, 2025

Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, `>]` and `]>`. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.
A vulnerability was found in REXML, an XML toolkit used for Ruby. When parsing an untrusted XML with many specific characters, the REXML gem may take a long time, leading to a denial of service condition. Some of these special characters include the whitespace character, '>]', and ']>'.

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Title
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