🚨 [security] [ruby] Update rexml 3.2.6 → 3.3.4 (minor)

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↗️ rexml (indirect, 3.2.6 → 3.3.4) · Repo · Changelog

Security Advisories 🚨

🚨 REXML DoS vulnerability

Impact

The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API.

If you need to parse untrusted XMLs with SAX2 or pull parser API, you may be impacted to this vulnerability.

Patches

The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

Workarounds

Don't parse untrusted XMLs with SAX2 or pull parser API.

References

• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml/ : This is a similar vulnerability
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41946/: An announce on www.ruby-lang.org

🚨 REXML DoS vulnerability

Impact

The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]>.

If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to these vulnerabilities.

Patches

The REXML gem 3.3.3 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
• GHSA-4xqq-m2hx-25v8 : This is a similar vulnerability
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/08/01/dos-rexml-cve-2024-41123/: An announce on www.ruby-lang.org

🚨 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/

🚨 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 may 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

3.3.4

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that REXML::Security isn't defined when
  REXML::Parsers::StreamParser is used and
  rexml/parsers/streamparser is only required.
  • GH-189
  • Patch by takuya kodama.

Thanks

• takuya kodama

3.3.3

Improvements

• Added support for detecting invalid XML that has unsupported
  content before root element

  • GH-184
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Added support for REXML::Security.entity_expansion_limit= and
  REXML::Security.entity_expansion_text_limit= in SAX2 and pull
  parsers

  • GH-187
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Added more tests for invalid XMLs.

  • GH-183
  • Patch by Watson.

• Added more performance tests.

  • Patch by Watson.

• Improved parse performance.

  • GH-186
  • Patch by tomoya ishida.

Thanks

• NAITOH Jun

• Watson

• tomoya ishida

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

3.3.1

Improvements

• Added support for detecting malformed top-level comments.

  • GH-145
  • Patch by Hiroya Fujinami.

• Improved REXML::Element#attribute performance.

  • GH-146
  • Patch by Hiroya Fujinami.

• Added support for detecting malformed <!--> comments.

  • GH-147
  • Patch by Hiroya Fujinami.

• Added support for detecting unclosed DOCTYPE.

  • GH-152
  • Patch by Hiroya Fujinami.

• Added changlog_uri metadata to gemspec.

  • GH-156
  • Patch by fynsta.

• Improved parse performance.

  • GH-157
  • GH-158
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that large XML can't be parsed.

  • GH-154
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Fixed a bug that private constants are visible.

  • GH-155
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

Thanks

• Hiroya Fujinami

• NAITOH Jun

• fynsta

3.3.0

Improvements

• Added support for strscan 0.7.0 installed with Ruby 2.6.
  • GH-142
  • Reported by Fernando Trigoso.

Thanks

• Fernando Trigoso

3.2.9

Improvements

• Added support for old strscan.

  • GH-132
  • Reported by Adam

• Improved attribute value parse performance.

  • GH-135
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun.

• Improved REXML::Node#each_recursive performance.

  • GH-134
  • GH-139
  • Patch by Hiroya Fujinami.

• Improved text parse performance.

  • Reported by mprogrammer.

Thanks

• Adam
• NAITOH Jun
• Hiroya Fujinami
• mprogrammer

3.2.8

Fixes

• Suppressed a warning

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 more commits than we can show here.

🆕 strscan (added, 3.1.0)

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