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ALSA-2024:6670 — Moderate: pcs security update

Affected: AlmaLinux:8: pcs, AlmaLinux:8: pcs-snmp

The pcs packages provide a command-line configuration system for the Pacemaker and Corosync utilities.

Security Fix(es):

* rexml: rubygem-rexml: DoS when parsing an XML having many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]> (CVE-2024-41123) * rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-41946) * rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML (CVE-2024-43398)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

bdu:2024-07419

BREW-asciidoctor-CVE-2024-41946 — REXML DoS vulnerability

Affected: Homebrew: asciidoctor

### 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

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certfr-2024-avi-0923

EUVD-2026-258146

fkie_cve-2024-41946

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem 3.3.2 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many entity expansions with SAX2 or pull parser API. The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.

GHSA-5866-49gr-22v4 — REXML DoS vulnerability

Affected: RubyGems: rexml

### 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

msrc_CVE-2024-41946 — REXML DoS vulnerability

msrc_CVE-2024-41946

OESA-2024-2038 — ruby security update

Affected: openEuler:22.03-LTS-SP3: ruby, openEuler:20.03-LTS-SP4: ruby, openEuler:22.03-LTS-SP1: ruby, openEuler:24.03-LTS: ruby, openEuler:22.03-LTS-SP4: ruby

Ruby is a fast and easy interpreted scripting language for object-oriented programming. It has many functions for processing text Files and perform system management tasks (such as Perl).

Security Fix(es):

openSUSE-SU-2025:0129-1 — Security update for rubygem-rexml

Security update for rubygem-rexml

RHSA-2024:6702 — Red Hat Security Advisory: pcs security update

rexml: rubygem-rexml: DoS when parsing an XML having many specific characters such as whitespace character, >] and ]> rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML rexml: DoS vulnerability in REXML

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41946

Affected: Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS: jruby, Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS: ruby2.3, Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: jruby, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: ruby2.5, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: jruby, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: ruby2.7, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: jruby, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: ruby3.0, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: jruby, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: ruby3.2 and 2 more

WID-SEC-W-2024-1744 — Ruby REXML: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of Service

Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Ruby REXML ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.