CVE-2023-54354: Nokogiri updates packaged libxml2 to v2.10.4 to resolve multiple CVEs

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-04-11 · updated 2026-08-27

Description

### Summary Nokogiri v1.14.3 upgrades the packaged version of its dependency libxml2 to [v2.10.4](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/releases/v2.10.4) from v2.10.3. libxml2 v2.10.4 addresses the following known vulnerabilities: - [CVE-2023-29469](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-29469): Hashing of empty dict strings isn't deterministic - [CVE-2023-28484](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-28484): Fix null deref in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType - Schemas: Fix null-pointer-deref in xmlSchemaCheckCOSSTDerivedOK Please note that this advisory only applies to the CRuby implementation of Nokogiri `< 1.14.3`, and only if the _packaged_ libraries are being used. If you've overridden defaults at installation time to use _system_ libraries instead of packaged libraries, you should instead pay attention to your distro's `libxml2` release announcements. ### Mitigation Upgrade to Nokogiri `>= 1.14.3`. Users who are unable to upgrade Nokogiri may also choose a more complicated mitigation: compile and link Nokogiri against external libraries libxml2 `>= 2.10.4` which will also address these same issues. ### Impact No public information has yet been published about the security-related issues other than the upstream commits. Examination of those changesets indicate that the more serious issues relate to libxml2 dereferencing NULL pointers and potentially segfaulting while parsing untrusted inputs. The commits can be examined at: - [[CVE-2023-29469] Hashing of empty dict strings isn't deterministic (09a2dd45) · Commits · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/09a2dd453007f9c7205274623acdd73747c22d64) - [[CVE-2023-28484] Fix null deref in xmlSchemaFixupComplexType (647e072e) · Commits · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/647e072ea0a2f12687fa05c172f4c4713fdb0c4f) - [schemas: Fix null-pointer-deref in xmlSchemaCheckCOSSTDerivedOK (4c6922f7) · Commits · GNOME / libxml2 · GitLab](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/4c6922f763ad958c48ff66f82823ae21f2e92ee6)

Affected products

Rubygems Nokogiri: before 1.14.3; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+148) — fixed in 1.14.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Rubygems Nokogiri 1.14.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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