Advisory Weakness Curation

Nokogiri subject to DoS via libxml2 vulnerability The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.3 (as used in nokogiri before 1.6.7.1) does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660.

Vulnerabilities in libxml2 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the libxml2 library that this package gem depends on.

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption The xmlStringLenDecodeEntities function in parser.c in libxml2 does not properly prevent entity expansion, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted XML data, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-3660.