Bug 2492963 (CVE-2026-57438)

Summary: CVE-2026-57438 nokogiri: rubygem-nokogiri: Nokogiri: Memory corruption due to XInclude substitution
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akostadi, amasferr, anthomas, crizzo, dmayorov, ehelms, eshamard, ggainey, jlledo, jpasqual, juwatts, jvasik, kaycoth, mhulan, nmoumoul, osousa, pantinor, pcreech, rblanco, rchan, rhel-process-autobot, smallamp, tmalecek, tsedmik, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in Nokogiri, an XML and HTML library for the Ruby programming language. When performing XInclude substitutions, the library prematurely frees memory associated with nodes and namespaces. If an application has exposed these freed objects to Ruby, a local attacker could potentially trigger invalid reads or writes to memory. This memory corruption could lead to information disclosure or denial of service.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-25 16:01:16 UTC
Nokogiri is an open source XML and HTML library for the Ruby programming language. Prior to 1.19.4, XInclude substitution performed by Nokogiri::XML::Node#do_xinclude replaced each <xi:include> in place, freeing the include node along with its children (such as <xi:fallback> and its descendants) and any namespaces declared on them. If an application had already exposed one of those nodes or namespaces to Ruby, the corresponding Ruby object was left pointing at freed memory. Using the object could result in invalid reads or writes to memory. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.19.4.