🚨 [security] Update rexml 3.2.6 → 3.2.8 (patch)

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What changed?

↗️ rexml (indirect, 3.2.6 → 3.2.8) · Repo · Changelog

Security Advisories 🚨

🚨 REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability

Impact

The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many <s in an attribute value.

If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you many be impacted to this vulnerability.

Patches

The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability.

Workarounds

Don't parse untrusted XMLs.

References

• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176/

Release Notes

3.2.7

Improvements

• Improve parse performance by using StringScanner.

  • GH-106

  • GH-107

  • GH-108

  • GH-109

  • GH-112

  • GH-113

  • GH-114

  • GH-115

  • GH-116

  • GH-117

  • GH-118

  • GH-119

  • GH-121

  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Improved parse performance when an attribute has many <s.

  • GH-124

Fixes

• XPath: Fixed a bug of normalize_space(array).

  • GH-110

  • GH-111

  • Patch by flatisland.

• XPath: Fixed a bug that wrong position is used with nested path.

  • GH-110

  • GH-122

  • Reported by jcavalieri.

  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Fixed a bug that an exception message can't be generated for
  invalid encoding XML.

  • GH-29

  • GH-123

  • Reported by DuKewu.

  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

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

Commits

See the full diff on Github. The new version differs by 33 commits:

• Add 3.2.8 entry
• Remove an unused variable (#128)
• Suppress a warning
• ci: install only gems required for running tests (#129)
• Add missing Thanks section
• Bump version
• Add 3.2.7 entry
• Read quoted attributes in chunks (#126)
• Exclude older than 2.6 on macos-14
• Move development dependencies to Gemfile (#124)
• Fix a problem that parse exception message can't be generated for invalid encoding XML (#123)
• xpath: Fix wrong position with nested path (#122)
• Change `attribute.has_key?(name)` to ` attributes[name]`. (#121)
• Optimize the parse_attributes method to use `Source#match` to parse XML. (#119)
• Make the test suite compatible with `--enable-frozen-string-literal` (#120)
• Separate `IOSource#ensure_buffer` from `IOSource#match`. (#118)
• Remove `Source#string=` method (#117)
• source: Remove unnecessary string length comparisons in the case of string comparisons (#116)
• Use more StringScanner based API to parse XML (#114)
• test: Fix invalid XML with spaces before the XML declaration (#115)
• Stop specifying the gem version of strscan in benchmarks. (#113)
• Remove unnecessary checks in baseparser (#112)
• xpath: Fix normalize_space(array) case (#111)
• Change loop in parse_attributes to `while true`. (#109)
• Reduce calls to StringScanner.new() (#108)
• Use `@scanner << readline` instead of `@scanner.string = @scanner.rest + readline` (#107)
• Reduce calls to `Source#buffer`(`StringScanner#rest`) (#106)
• Use string scanner with baseparser (#105)
• Add parse benchmark (#104)
• Use reusing workflow for Ruby versions (#103)
• CI: Add ruby-3.3 (#102)
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 (#101)
• Bump version

🆕 strscan (added, 3.1.0)

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Closed in favor of #1504.