Bug 2153234 (CVE-2022-23514) - CVE-2022-23514 rubygem-loofah: inefficient regular expression leading to denial of service
Summary: CVE-2022-23514 rubygem-loofah: inefficient regular expression leading to deni...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2022-23514
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2153235 2153236 2153237 2153265
Blocks: 2153086
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-12-14 10:33 UTC by ybuenos
Modified: 2023-05-03 22:47 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: rubygem-loofah 2.19.1
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An inefficient regular expression vulnerability was found in rubygem loofah. While sanitizing certain SVG attributes, loofah is susceptible to excessive backtracking, which can result in a denial of service through CPU resource consumption.
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Last Closed: 2023-05-03 22:47:02 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:2097 0 None None None 2023-05-03 13:20:10 UTC

Description ybuenos 2022-12-14 10:33:10 UTC 
Loofah `< 2.19.1` contains an inefficient regular expression that is susceptible to excessive backtracking when attempting to sanitize certain SVG attributes. This may lead to a denial of service through CPU resource consumption.
Comment 1 ybuenos 2022-12-14 10:33:29 UTC 
Created rubygem-loofah tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2153235]
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-03 13:20:08 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2023:2097 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2097
Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-05-03 22:46:59 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-23514
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