En resumen
- CVE-2018-14404 es una vulnerabilidad MEDIO (CVSS 6.5) que afecta a nokogiri, libxml2 (xmlsoft).
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días (EPSS): 3.7%, mayor que el 89.9% de las vulnerabilidades.
- Solución: actualizar a 1.8.5 o posterior.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| nokogiri RubyGems | < 1.8.5
| 1.8.5
|
| libxml2 | ≤ 2.9.8
| No fix yet |
Description
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application.
NVD description
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function of libxml2 through 2.9.8 when parsing an invalid XPath expression in the XPATH_OP_AND or XPATH_OP_OR case. Applications processing untrusted XSL format inputs with the use of the libxml2 library may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a crash of the application.
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