Bug 2302807

Summary:	CVE-2024-41123 rubygem-net-ssh: 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-net-ssh	Assignee:	Vít Ondruch <vondruch>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	39	CC:	ruby-packagers-sig, shreyankg, tdawson, vondruch
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Hardware:	Unspecified
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Whiteboard:	{"flaws": ["fa7f32fc-1e0e-4d90-a823-249ba712c176"]}
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Last Closed:	2024-08-05 08:06:12 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	2302268

Description Michal Findra 2024-08-05 07:22:34 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.