rexml: REXML ReDoS vulnerability

A flaw was found in the ReXML XML toolkit for Ruby. Parsing XML data containing a large number of digits between & and x...; in a hex numeric character reference &x...; can trigger a regular expression denial of service ReDoS condition, leading to a denial of service...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-41123

REXML is an XML toolkit for Ruby. The REXML gem before 3.3.2 has some DoS vulnerabilities when it parses an XML that has many specific characters such as whitespace character, and . The REXML gem 3.3.3 or later include the patches to fix these vulnerabilities...