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HistoryDec 01, 2014 - 12:57 p.m.

ruby security update

2014-12-0112:57:41
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5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.154 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.8%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:1911

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language.
It has features to process text files and to perform system management
tasks.

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the way the Ruby REXML XML
parser performed expansion of parameter entities. A specially crafted XML
document could cause REXML to use an excessive amount of CPU and memory.
(CVE-2014-8080, CVE-2014-8090)

The CVE-2014-8090 issue was discovered by Red Hat Product Security.

All ruby users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running instances
of Ruby need to be restarted for this update to take effect.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-December/082953.html

Affected packages:
ruby
ruby-devel
ruby-docs
ruby-irb
ruby-libs
ruby-rdoc
ruby-ri
ruby-static
ruby-tcltk

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1911

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.154 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.8%