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GHSA-vvfq-8hwr-qm4m

Nokogiri updates packaged libxml2 to 2.13.6 to resolve CVE-2025-24928 and CVE-2024-56171

Details

## Summary

Nokogiri v1.18.3 upgrades its dependency libxml2 to [v2.13.6](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/releases/v2.13.6).

libxml2 v2.13.6 addresses:

- CVE-2025-24928 - described at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/847 - CVE-2024-56171 - described at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/828

## Impact

### CVE-2025-24928

Stack-buffer overflow is possible when reporting DTD validation errors if the input contains a long (~3kb) QName prefix.

### CVE-2024-56171

Use-after-free is possible during validation against untrusted XML Schemas (.xsd) and, potentially, validation of untrusted documents against trusted Schemas if they make use of `xsd:keyref` in combination with recursively defined types that have additional identity constraints.

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Affected packages

RubyGems / nokogiri
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 1.18.3
Fix bundle update nokogiri

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