DEBIAN-CVE-2024-39908

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-39908
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JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-39908
Upstream
Published
2024-07-16T18:15:08Z
Modified
2025-10-14T04:26:35.332922Z
Severity
  • 4.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / ruby2.7

Package

Name
ruby2.7
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ruby2.7?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.7.4-1+deb11u3

Affected versions

2.*

2.7.4-1
2.7.4-1+deb11u1
2.7.4-1+deb11u2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / ruby3.1

Package

Name
ruby3.1
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ruby3.1?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*

3.1.2-7
3.1.2-7+deb12u1
3.1.2-7+hurd.1
3.1.2-8
3.1.2-8.1~exp1
3.1.2-8.3
3.1.2-8.4
3.1.2-8.5

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / ruby3.3

Package

Name
ruby3.3
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ruby3.3?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.3.5-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / ruby3.3

Package

Name
ruby3.3
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ruby3.3?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.3.5-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}