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ruby-loofah — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23516

Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. Loofah >= 2.2.0, < 2.19.1 uses recursion for sanitizing CDATA sections, making it susceptible to stack exhaustion and raising a SystemStackError exception. This may lead to a denial of service through CPU resource consumption. This issue is patched in version 2.19.1. Users who are unable to upgrade may be able to mitigate this vulnerability by limiting the length of the strings that are sanitized.

Products
ruby-loofah
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
2.19.1-1
CVEs
CVE-2022-23516
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 15:00 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23516

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 Dec 2022, 14:15 UTC

Loofah is a general library for manipulating and transforming HTML/XML documents and fragments, built on top of Nokogiri. Loofah >= 2.2.0, < 2.19.1 uses recursion for sanitizing CDATA sections, making it susceptible to stack exhaustion and raising a SystemStackError exception. This may lead to a denial of service through CPU resource consumption. This issue is patched in version 2.19.1. Users who are unable to upgrade may be able to mitigate this vulnerability by limiting the length of the strings that are sanitized.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-23516

ruby-loofah

Fixed versions: 2.19.1-1

ruby-loofah

Fixed versions: 2.19.1-1

ruby-loofah

Fixed versions: 2.19.1-1

Complete source record
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