DEBIAN-CVE-2024-43398

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-43398
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JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-43398
Upstream
Published
2024-08-22T15:15:16Z
Modified
2025-10-14T04:26:11.328993Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.6 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many deep elements that have same local name attributes. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs with tree parser API like REXML::Document.new, you may be impacted to this vulnerability. If you use other parser APIs such as stream parser API and SAX2 parser API, this vulnerability is not affected. The REXML gem 3.3.6 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

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"
}