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GHSA-5mwf-688x-mr7x
No affected components available
Duplicate Advisory
This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-vvfq-8hwr-qm4m. This link is maintained to preserve external references.
Original Description
Summary
Nokogiri v1.18.3 upgrades its dependency libxml2 to v2.13.6.
libxml2 v2.13.6 addresses:
- CVE-2025-24928
- described at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/847
- CVE-2024-56171
- described at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/828
Impact
CVE-2025-24928
Stack-buffer overflow is possible when reporting DTD validation errors if the input contains a long (~3kb) QName prefix.
CVE-2024-56171
Use-after-free is possible during validation against untrusted
XML Schemas (.xsd) and, potentially, validation of untrusted documents
against trusted Schemas if they make use of xsd:keyref in combination
with recursively defined types that have additional identity constraints.
Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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