Bug 2302795

Summary: CVE-2024-41123 rubygem-backports: DoS when parsing an XML having many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]> [fedora-39]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michal Findra <mfindra>
Component: rubygem-backportsAssignee: Vít Ondruch <vondruch>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 39CC: ruby-packagers-sig, tdawson, vondruch
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Description Michal Findra 2024-08-05 07:20:57 UTC
More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302268

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 Vít Ondruch 2024-08-05 08:06:12 UTC
This issue affect 'rubygem-rexml' subpackage, provided by 'ruby' package. That is where the fix should be applied.