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OS X update for Ruby (CVE-2022-24836)

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OS X update for Ruby (CVE-2022-24836)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/11/2022
Created
01/11/2023
Added
01/10/2023
Modified
01/10/2023

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)

  • apple-osx-upgrade-13_1

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