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veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:4254
HistoryMay 18, 2017 - 6:54 a.m.

Denial Of Service (DoS) Through Embedded C Library

2017-05-1806:54:39
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
21

EPSS

0.007

Percentile

79.9%

The nokogiri gem is using libxml2 which is vulnerable to CVE-2016-3627. CVE-2016-3627 is a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. It is possible because the xmlStringGetNodeList and xmlParserEntityCheck functions fail to detect a recursive loop when it is used in recovery mode, causing stack consumption and application crashes.