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Nokogiri updates packaged libxml2 to v2.13.8 to resolve CVE-2025-32414 and CVE-2025-32415

published last yr. modified 2mo ago also CVE-2025-71346

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Summary

## Summary

Nokogiri v1.18.8 upgrades its dependency libxml2 to [v2.13.8](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/releases/v2.13.8).

libxml2 v2.13.8 addresses:

- CVE-2025-32414 - described at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/889 - CVE-2025-32415 - described at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/890

## Impact

### CVE-2025-32414: No impact

In libxml2 before 2.13.8 and 2.14.x before 2.14.2, out-of-bounds memory access can occur in the Python API (Python bindings) because of an incorrect return value. This occurs in xmlPythonFileRead and xmlPythonFileReadRaw because of a difference between bytes and characters.

**There is no impact** from this CVE for Nokogiri users.

### CVE-2025-32415: Low impact

In libxml2 before 2.13.8 and 2.14.x before 2.14.2, xmlSchemaIDCFillNodeTables in xmlschemas.c has a heap-based buffer under-read. To exploit this, a crafted XML document must be validated against an XML schema with certain identity constraints, or a crafted XML schema must be used.

In the upstream issue, further context is provided by the maintainer:

> The bug affects validation against untrusted XML Schemas (.xsd) and validation of untrusted > documents against trusted Schemas if they make use of xsd:keyref in combination with recursively > defined types that have additional identity constraints.

MITRE has published a severity score of 2.9 LOW (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L) for this CVE.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems nokogiri 1.18.8

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Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems nokogiri
<1.18.8
1.18.8

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1395 Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component

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