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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1oZ2c3LWNnaHEteGhmNM4AAcjI
Ruby vulnerable to denial of service
When reading text nodes from an XML document, the REXML parser can be coerced in to allocating extremely large string objects which can consume all of the memory on a machine, causing a denial of service.
Jruby resolves this bug in version 1.7.3 as noted in https://www.jruby.org/2013/02/21/jruby-1-7-3.html
Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hgg7-cghq-xhf4JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1oZ2c3LWNnaHEteGhmNM4AAcjI
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: about 2 years ago
Updated: 12 months ago
Identifiers: GHSA-hgg7-cghq-xhf4, CVE-2013-1821
References:
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1821
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914716
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0092
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702525
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00034.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00036.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1147.html
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=39384
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2738
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2809
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/06/5
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/22/rexml-dos-2013-02-22/
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2013&m=slackware-security.426862
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1780-1
- https://www.jruby.org/2013/02/21/jruby-1-7-3.html
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hgg7-cghq-xhf4
Affected Packages
maven:org.jruby:jruby
Dependent packages: 151Dependent repositories: 1,719
Downloads:
Affected Version Ranges: < 1.7.3
Fixed in: 1.7.3
All affected versions: 0.8.3, 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.8, 0.9.9, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.5, 1.5.6, 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5, 1.6.6, 1.6.7, 1.6.8, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2
All unaffected versions: 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5, 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8, 1.7.9, 1.7.10, 1.7.11, 1.7.12, 1.7.13, 1.7.14, 1.7.15, 1.7.16, 1.7.17, 1.7.18, 1.7.19, 1.7.20, 1.7.21, 1.7.22, 1.7.23, 1.7.24, 1.7.25, 1.7.26, 1.7.27