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Cent OS: CVE-2014-8080: CESA-2014:1912 (ruby)

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Cent OS: CVE-2014-8080: CESA-2014:1912 (ruby)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/03/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
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)

  • centos-upgrade-ruby
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-devel
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-doc
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-docs
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-irb
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-libs
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-rdoc
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-ri
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-static
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-tcltk
  • centos-upgrade-rubygem-bigdecimal
  • centos-upgrade-rubygem-io-console
  • centos-upgrade-rubygem-json
  • centos-upgrade-rubygem-minitest
  • centos-upgrade-rubygem-psych
  • centos-upgrade-rubygem-rake
  • centos-upgrade-rubygem-rdoc
  • centos-upgrade-rubygems
  • centos-upgrade-rubygems-devel

References

  • APPLE-SA-2015-09-30-3
  • DSA-3157
  • DSA-3159
  • MDVSA-2015:129
  • CVE-2014-8080
  • RHSA-2014:1911
  • RHSA-2014:1912
  • RHSA-2014:1913
  • RHSA-2014:1914
  • USN-2397-1
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