REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.9 has a ReDoS
vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many digits between &# and x...;
in a hex numeric character reference (&#x.... This does not happen with
Ruby 3.2 or later. Ruby 3.1 is the only affected maintained Ruby.
The REXML gem 3.3.9 or later include the patch to fix the vulnerability.
CVE-2024-49761-0009.patch is the CVE fix and rest are dependent commits.
Reference:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49761
Upstream-patch:
810d22852383ca5c4b0f51217dbcc67e4049f6a6fc6cad570b7712855547370666e314a579730f25ce59f2eb1a
(From OE-Core rev: 5b453400e9dd878b81b1447d14b3f518809de17e)
Signed-off-by: Divya Chellam <divya.chellam@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>