USN-1780-1: Ruby vulnerability
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
04/09/2013
07/25/2018
05/06/2013
07/09/2020
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)
- ubuntu-upgrade-libruby1-8
- ubuntu-upgrade-libruby1-9-1
- ubuntu-upgrade-ruby1-8
- ubuntu-upgrade-ruby1-9-1
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