CVE-2017-16932
HIGH7.5EPSS 21.8%Nokogiri gem, via libxml, is affected by DoS vulnerabilities
Published: 5/13/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5 does not prevent infinite recursion in parameter entities.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/clamavfrom 0, < 0.100.1-r0
- Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.9.10+dfsg-2
- RubyGems/nokogirifrom 0, < 1.8.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (14)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16932
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-16932
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16932
- WEBhttps://blog.clamav.net/2018/07/clamav-01001-has-been-released.html
- WEBhttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759579
- WEBhttps://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2017-16932.yml
- WEBhttps://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1714
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00041.html
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00004.html
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1
- WEBhttp://xmlsoft.org/news.html