CVE-2017-16932

high
Published 2018-01-29 · Modified 2024-02-20
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
5.0
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Nokogiri gem, via libxml, is affected by DoS vulnerabilities

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16932

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-16932.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/GNOME/libxml2/commit/899a5d9f0ed13b8e32449a08a361e0de127dd961

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://xmlsoft.org/news.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.9.10+dfsg-2
debian debianbullseyefixed2.9.10+dfsg-2
debian debianforkyfixed2.9.10+dfsg-2
debian debiansidfixed2.9.10+dfsg-2
debian debiantrixiefixed2.9.10+dfsg-2

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemsnokogiri<>= 1.8.1>= 1.8.1
ruby RubyGemsnokogiri<1.8.11.8.1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
xmlsoftlibxml2{"endIncluding":"2.9.4"}

References

CWEs

CWE-835

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.