Nokogiri gem, via libxml, is affected by DoS vulnerabilities
Date: 2022-05
Affected: rubygems/nokogiri
Attack vector: dos
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2017-15412
CWE: CWE-416
CVSS: 8.8 (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Use after free in libxml2 before 2.9.5, as used in Google Chrome prior to 63.0.3239.84 and other products, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.


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