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

CVE-2024-41946 — REXML DoS vulnerability

Affected: ruby rexml, ruby-lang rexml

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.

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