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Red Hat: CVE-2024-35176: REXML: DoS parsing an XML with many `<`s in an attribute value (multiple advisories)>

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Red Hat: CVE-2024-35176: REXML: DoS parsing an XML with many `<`s in an attribute value (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/16/2024
Created
07/16/2024
Added
07/16/2024
Modified
09/13/2024

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-pcs
  • redhat-upgrade-pcs-snmp
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-irb
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-ruby-libs-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-abrt
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-abrt-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bigdecimal
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bigdecimal-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bson
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bson-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bson-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bson-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bundler
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-bundler-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-did_you_mean
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-io-console
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-io-console-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-json
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-json-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-minitest
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mongo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mongo-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-mysql2-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-net-telnet
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-openssl
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-openssl-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-pg
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-pg-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-pg-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-pg-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-power_assert
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-psych
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-psych-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-rake
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-rdoc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-test-unit
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygem-xmlrpc
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygems
  • redhat-upgrade-rubygems-devel

References

  • CVE-2024-35176
  • RHSA-2024:4499
  • RHSA-2024:5338

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