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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for ruby21 (ALAS-2014-439) (CVE-2014-8080)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for ruby21 (ALAS-2014-439) (CVE-2014-8080)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/03/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/07/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby21
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby21-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby21-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby21-doc
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby21-irb
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby21-libs
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rubygem21-bigdecimal
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rubygem21-io-console
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rubygem21-psych
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rubygems21
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rubygems21-devel

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