CVE-2020-7595
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.48%libxml as used in Nokogiri has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation
Published: 2/24/2020Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 2.9.10 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/libxml2from 0, < 2.9.8-r2
- Debian/libxml2from 0, < 2.9.10+dfsg-2.1
- RubyGems/nokogirifrom 0, < 1.10.8
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (21)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7595
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-7595
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-7595
- PATCHhttps://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri
- WEBhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00047.html
- WEBhttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-292794.pdf
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2020-7595.yml
- WEBhttps://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1992
- WEBhttps://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/0e1a49c89076
- WEBhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/545SPOI3ZPPNPX4TFRIVE4JVRTJRKULL
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5R55ZR52RMBX24TQTWHCIWKJVRV6YAWI
- WEBhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/JDPF3AAVKUAKDYFMFKSIQSVVS3EEFPQH
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202010-04
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200702-0005
- WEBhttps://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-103-08
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4274-1
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html