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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for ruby19 (ALAS-2014-447) (CVE-2014-8090)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for ruby19 (ALAS-2014-447) (CVE-2014-8090)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/19/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/19/2014
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) a crafted XML document containing an empty string in an entity that is used in a large number of nested entity references, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1821 and CVE-2014-8080.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby19
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby19-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby19-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby19-doc
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby19-irb
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ruby19-libs
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rubygem19-bigdecimal
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rubygem19-io-console
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rubygem19-json
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rubygem19-minitest
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rubygem19-rake
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rubygem19-rdoc
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rubygems19
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-rubygems19-devel

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