CWE
611
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2014-8090: XEE

First published: Fri Nov 21 2014(Updated: )

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) a crafted XML document containing an empty string in an entity that is used in a large number of nested entity references, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1821 and CVE-2014-8080.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Ruby-lang Ruby<=1.9.3
Ruby-lang Ruby=1.9.3
Ruby-lang Ruby=1.9.3-p0
Ruby-lang Ruby=1.9.3-p125
Ruby-lang Ruby=1.9.3-p194
Ruby-lang Ruby=1.9.3-p286
Ruby-lang Ruby=1.9.3-p383
Ruby-lang Ruby=1.9.3-p385
Ruby-lang Ruby=1.9.3-p392
Ruby-lang Ruby=1.9.3-p426
Ruby-lang Ruby=1.9.3-p429
Ruby-lang Ruby=1.9.3-p448
Ruby-lang Ruby=1.9.3-p545
Ruby-lang Ruby=1.9.3-p547
Ruby-lang Ruby=2.0.0
Ruby-lang Ruby=2.0.0-p0
Ruby-lang Ruby=2.0.0-p195
Ruby-lang Ruby=2.0.0-p247
Ruby-lang Ruby=2.0.0-p451
Ruby-lang Ruby=2.0.0-p481
Ruby-lang Ruby=2.0.0-p576
Ruby-lang Ruby=2.0.0-p594
Ruby-lang Ruby=2.1.1
Ruby-lang Ruby=2.1.2
Ruby-lang Ruby=2.1.3
Ruby-lang Ruby=2.1.4

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