🚨 [security] Update rexml 3.3.1 → 3.3.2 (patch)

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What changed?

↗️ rexml (indirect, 3.3.1 → 3.3.2) · Repo · Changelog

Security Advisories 🚨

🚨 REXML denial of service vulnerability

Impact

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 may be impacted to these vulnerabilities.

Patches

The REXML gem 3.3.2 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities.

Workarounds

Don't parse untrusted XMLs.

References

• GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh : This is a similar vulnerability
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/07/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-39908/

Release Notes

3.3.2

Improvements

• Improved parse performance.

  • GH-160
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Improved parse performance.

  • GH-169
  • GH-170
  • GH-171
  • GH-172
  • GH-173
  • GH-174
  • GH-175
  • GH-176
  • GH-177
  • Patch by Watson.

• Added support for raising a parse exception when an XML has extra
  content after the root element.

  • GH-161
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Added support for raising a parse exception when an XML
  declaration exists in wrong position.

  • GH-162
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Removed needless a space after XML declaration in pretty print mode.

  • GH-164
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Stopped to emit :text event after the root element.

  • GH-167
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that SAX2 parser doesn't expand predefined entities for
  characters callback.
  • GH-168
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Thanks

• NAITOH Jun

• Watson

Does any of this look wrong? Please let us know.

Commits

See the full diff on Github. The new version differs by 27 commits:

• Add 3.3.2 entry
• test: improve linear performance test names
• Fix performance issue caused by using repeated `>` characters inside `<xml><!-- --></xml>` (#177)
• Fix ReDoS by using repeated space characters inside `<!DOCTYPE name [<!ATTLIST>]>` (#176)
• Suppress have_root not initialized warnings on Ruby < 3
• Fix performance issue caused by using repeated `>` characters inside `<!DOCTYPE name [<!ENTITY>]>` (#175)
• Fix performance issue caused by using repeated `>` characters inside `<!DOCTYPE root [<!-- PAYLOAD -->]>` (#174)
• Fix performance issue caused by using repeated `>` characters after ` <!DOCTYPE name` (#173)
• Fix performance issue caused by using repeated `>` characters inside `CDATA [ PAYLOAD ]` (#172)
• Fix performance issue caused by using repeated `>` characters inside comments (#171)
• Fix ReDoS caused by very large character references using repeated 0s (#169)
• Fix performance issue caused by using repeated `>` characters inside `<?xml` (#170)
• Fix a bug that SAX2 parser doesn't expand the predefined entities for "characters" (#168)
• Do not output :text event after the root tag is closed (#167)
• test Text.check: add entity reference with new line case
• test Text.check: add a space at the start in character reference cases
• test Text.check: use "why" for test name
• test Text.check: add garbage at the end in character reference cases
• test Text.check: add empty reference case
• Fix test for Text.check (#166)
• Add tests for REXML::Text.check (#165)
• Stop adding extra new line after XML declaration with pretty format (#164)
• test: move an attribute value test to parse/test_element.rb
• Add position check for XML declaration (#162)
• fix: Extra content at the end of the document (#161)
• Optimize BaseParser#unnormalize method to replace "\r\n" with "\n" only when "\r\n" is included (#160)
• Bump version

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