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ELSA-2013-0611 Moderate: Oracle Linux ruby security update

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ELSA-2013-0611 Moderate: Oracle Linux ruby security update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

03/08/2013

Created

07/25/2018

Added

03/08/2013

Modified

04/11/2019

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)

oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-docs
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-irb
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-libs
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-mode
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-rdoc
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-ri
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-tcltk

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2013-1821
58141
CVE - 2013-1821
DSA-2738
DSA-2809
RHSA-2013:0611
RHSA-2013:0612
RHSA-2013:1028
RHSA-2013:1147
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2013-March/003342.html

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