Bug 2302298

Summary:	CVE-2024-41946 rubygem-gist: DoS vulnerability in REXML [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Marco Benatto <mbenatto>
Component:	rubygem-gist	Assignee:	Georg Sauthoff <fedora>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	40	CC:	abushkin, fedora
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security, SecurityTracking
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Whiteboard:	{"flaws": ["17b2d79d-5ae9-4057-a390-3899c3c4eb1a"]}
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Last Closed:	2024-08-27 08:44:22 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	2302272

Description Marco Benatto 2024-08-01 16:26:57 UTC

More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302272

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Georg Sauthoff 2024-08-03 20:59:14 UTC

Hm, since that security flaw is located inside rubygem-rexml, i.e. a dependency of rubygem-gist, shouldn't it be reported against rubygem-rexml?

Comment 2 Georg Sauthoff 2024-08-03 21:04:50 UTC

More useful links regarding the fix of rubygem-rexml:

Bug 2282493 (f39)
Bug 2282494 (f40)