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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2014-8080: Ruby: Denial of service

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2014-8080: Ruby: Denial of service

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/03/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
05/28/2021

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)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-ruby

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