CVE-2017-15412
HIGH8.8EPSS 2.5%Nokogiri gem, via libxml, is affected by DoS vulnerabilities
Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (4)
- Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.9.4+dfsg1-5.2
- Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy12
- Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u6
- RubyGems/nokogirifrom 0, < 1.8.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (13)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15412
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15412
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3401
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0287
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783160
- WEBhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- WEBhttps://crbug.com/727039
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2017-15412.yml
- WEBhttps://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1714
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00014.html
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-03
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20201208155618/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040348
- WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4086