Summary
Nokogiri v1.13.4 updates the vendored zlib from 1.2.11 to 1.2.12, which addresses CVE-2018-25032. That CVE is scored as CVSS 7.4 “High” on the NVD record as of 2022-04-05.
Please note that this advisory only applies to the CRuby implementation of Nokogiri < 1.13.4
, and only if the packaged version of zlib
is being used. Please see this document for a complete description of which platform gems vendor zlib
. If you’ve overridden defaults at installation time to use system libraries instead of packaged libraries, you should instead pay attention to your distro’s zlib
release announcements.
Mitigation
Upgrade to Nokogiri >= v1.13.4
.
Impact
CVE-2018-25032 in zlib
- Severity: High
- Type: CWE-787 Out of bounds write
- Description: zlib before 1.2.12 allows memory corruption when deflating (i.e., when compressing) if the input has many distant matches.
References
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/security/advisories/GHSA-v6gp-9mmm-c6p5
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-25032
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jc36-42cf-vqwj
- https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/releases/tag/v1.13.4
- https://groups.google.com/g/ruby-security-ann/c/vX7qSjsvWis/m/TJWN4oOKBwAJ?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v6gp-9mmm-c6p5