ADVISORIES
GEM
PATCHED VERSIONS
- >= 1.10.5
DESCRIPTION
Nokogiri v1.10.5 has been released.
This is a security release. It addresses three CVEs in upstream libxml2, for which details are below.
If you’re using your distro’s system libraries, rather than Nokogiri’s vendored libraries, there’s no security need to upgrade at this time, though you may want to check with your distro whether they’ve patched this (Canonical has patched Ubuntu packages). Note that libxslt 1.1.34 addresses these vulnerabilities.
Full details about the security update are available in Github Issue [#1943] https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1943.
CVE-2019-13117
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-13117.html
Priority: Low
Description: In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, an xsl:number with certain format strings could lead to a uninitialized read in xsltNumberFormatInsertNumbers. This could allow an attacker to discern whether a byte on the stack contains the characters A, a, I, i, or 0, or any other character.
Patched with commit https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/commit/c5eb6cf3aba0af048596106ed839b4ae17ecbcb1
CVE-2019-13118
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-13118.html
Priority: Low
Description: In numbers.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a type holding grouping characters of an xsl:number instruction was too narrow and an invalid character/length combination could be passed to xsltNumberFormatDecimal, leading to a read of uninitialized stack data
Patched with commit https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/commit/6ce8de69330783977dd14f6569419489875fb71b
CVE-2019-18197
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-18197.html
Priority: Medium
Description: In xsltCopyText in transform.c in libxslt 1.1.33, a pointer variable isn’t reset under certain circumstances. If the relevant memory area happened to be freed and reused in a certain way, a bounds check could fail and memory outside a buffer could be written to, or uninitialized data could be disclosed.
Patched with commit https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/commit/2232473733b7313d67de8836ea3b29eec6e8e285
RELATED
- CVE-2019-13118 (NVD)
- CVE-2019-18197 (NVD)
- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ruby-security-ann/-Wq4aouIA3Q/yc76ZHemBgAJ
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4164-1/
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/commit/c5eb6cf3aba0af048596106ed839b4ae17ecbcb1
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/commit/6ce8de69330783977dd14f6569419489875fb71b
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/commit/2232473733b7313d67de8836ea3b29eec6e8e285