CVE-2024-39908

Publication date 16 July 2024

Last updated 21 November 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.1 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as `<`, `0` and `%>`. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you many be impacted to these vulnerabilities. The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid parsing untrusted XML strings.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
jruby 24.10 oracular
Needs evaluation
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage
ruby2.3 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable
ruby2.5 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
ruby2.7 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.7.0-5ubuntu1.15
ruby3.0 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.0.2-7ubuntu2.8
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
ruby3.2 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 3.2.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.3
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
ruby3.3 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release

Notes

0xnishit

same fix as CVE-2024-35176

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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