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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for ruby (ALAS-2013-173) (multiple CVEs)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for ruby (ALAS-2013-173) (multiple CVEs)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/09/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/28/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby-irb
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby-libs
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby-rdoc
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby-ri
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby-static

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