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Ubuntu: USN-7091-1 (CVE-2024-35176): Ruby vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-7091-1 (CVE-2024-35176): Ruby vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/16/2024
Created
11/07/2024
Added
11/06/2024
Modified
11/06/2024

Description

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a denial of service vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `<`s in an attribute value. Those who need to parse untrusted XMLs may be impacted to this vulnerability. The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. As a workaround, don't parse untrusted XMLs.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libruby3-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libruby3-2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby3-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ruby3-2

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