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Bug 932013 (CVE-2024-35176)

Summary: <dev-ruby/rexml-3.2.8: Denial of Service
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Hans de Graaff <graaff>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: ruby
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176/
Whiteboard: A3 [glsa?]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 932175    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev Security 2024-05-17 04:27:00 UTC
There is a DoS vulnerability in REXML gem. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-35176. We strongly recommend upgrading the REXML gem.
Details

When parsing an XML document that has many < in an attribute value, REXML gem may take long time.

Please update REXML gem to version 3.2.7 or later.
Affected versions

    REXML gem 3.2.6 or prior
Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2024-06-15 06:10:53 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=264eccd8dbd24a8b65c27373fcfff40821804cb3

commit 264eccd8dbd24a8b65c27373fcfff40821804cb3
Author:     Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-06-15 06:10:14 +0000
Commit:     Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2024-06-15 06:10:30 +0000

    dev-ruby/rexml: drop 3.2.6
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/932013
    Signed-off-by: Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org>

 dev-ruby/rexml/Manifest           |  1 -
 dev-ruby/rexml/rexml-3.2.6.ebuild | 33 ---------------------------------
 2 files changed, 34 deletions(-)