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USN-2397-1: Ruby vulnerabilities

Severity

CVSS

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

Published

11/03/2014

Created

07/25/2018

Added

11/05/2014

Modified

07/09/2020

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)

ubuntu-upgrade-libruby1-8
ubuntu-upgrade-libruby1-9-1
ubuntu-upgrade-libruby2-0
ubuntu-upgrade-libruby2-1
ubuntu-upgrade-ruby1-8
ubuntu-upgrade-ruby1-9-1
ubuntu-upgrade-ruby2-0
ubuntu-upgrade-ruby2-1

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2014-4975
APPLE-SA-2015-09-30-3
CVE - 2014-4975
CVE - 2014-8080
DSA-3157
DSA-3159
RHSA-2014:1911
RHSA-2014:1912
RHSA-2014:1913
RHSA-2014:1914
USN-2397-1
94706

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