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veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:4242
HistoryMay 17, 2017 - 6:35 a.m.

Heap-based Buffer Overflow Through Embedded C Dependency

2017-05-1706:35:24
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
12

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

62.0%

nokogiri has a copied version of the libxml2 library. The copy that nokogiri includes is vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1839. The buffer overflow is caused due to a flaw in the xmlDictAddString function in dict.c. This vulnerability in libxml2 is referred to as CVE-2017-9050.

CPENameOperatorVersion
nokogirile1.8.0
libxml2.sole2.7.6