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CVE-2013-1821
Priority
Medium
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.
References
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1821
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/22/rexml-dos-2013-02-22/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1780-1
Bugs
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702526
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702525
Assigned-to
mdeslaur
Notes
Package
Source:
ruby1.8
(
LP
Ubuntu
Debian
)
Upstream:
released
(1.8.7.358-7)
Package
Source:
ruby1.9.1
(
LP
Ubuntu
Debian
)
Upstream:
released
(1.9.3 patchlevel 392,1.9.3.194-8.1)
Patches:
Upstream:
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=39384
More Information
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Updated
: 2019-12-05 21:03:29 UTC (commit
0aa5e7c87c8b55d2ec5c7f4ca1179cf75de91961
)