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Cent OS: CVE-2013-1821: CESA-2013:0612 (ruby)

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Cent OS: CVE-2013-1821: CESA-2013:0612 (ruby)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/09/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
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)

  • centos-upgrade-ruby
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-devel
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-docs
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-irb
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-libs
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-mode
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-rdoc
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-ri
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-static
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-tcltk

References

  • DSA-2738
  • DSA-2809
  • MDVSA-2013:124
  • CVE-2013-1821
  • RHSA-2013:0611
  • RHSA-2013:0612
  • RHSA-2013:1028
  • RHSA-2013:1147
  • SUSE-SU-2013:0609
  • SUSE-SU-2013:0647
  • USN-1780-1
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