CVE-2017-18258
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
Uncontrolled resource consumption in nokogiri
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Arch Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Fixed | 2.9.6+3+g5af594d8-1 |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-2 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-2 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-2 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-2 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.9.10+dfsg-2 |
References
- https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=e2a9122b8dde53d320750451e9907a7dcb2ca8bb
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18258.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-18258
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18258
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-882p-jqgm-f45g
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2017-18258.yml
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10284
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00035.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190719-0001
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3739-1
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.