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
0.236 Low
EPSS
Percentile
95.9%
Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It
has features to process text files and to do system management tasks.
It was discovered that Ruby’s REXML library did not properly restrict XML
entity expansion. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of
service by tricking a Ruby application using REXML to read text nodes from
specially-crafted XML content, which will result in REXML consuming large
amounts of system memory. (CVE-2013-1821)
All users of Ruby are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to resolve this issue.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | 5 | x86_64 | ruby-debuginfo | < 1.8.5-29.el5_9 | ruby-debuginfo-1.8.5-29.el5_9.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | s390x | ruby-docs | < 1.8.5-29.el5_9 | ruby-docs-1.8.5-29.el5_9.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | i386 | ruby-rdoc | < 1.8.5-29.el5_9 | ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-29.el5_9.i386.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | s390x | ruby | < 1.8.5-29.el5_9 | ruby-1.8.5-29.el5_9.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | ppc64 | ruby-devel | < 1.8.5-29.el5_9 | ruby-devel-1.8.5-29.el5_9.ppc64.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | s390x | ruby-irb | < 1.8.5-29.el5_9 | ruby-irb-1.8.5-29.el5_9.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | s390x | ruby-mode | < 1.8.5-29.el5_9 | ruby-mode-1.8.5-29.el5_9.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | s390 | ruby-libs | < 1.8.5-29.el5_9 | ruby-libs-1.8.5-29.el5_9.s390.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | ppc | ruby-rdoc | < 1.8.5-29.el5_9 | ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-29.el5_9.ppc.rpm |
RedHat | 5 | x86_64 | ruby-tcltk | < 1.8.5-29.el5_9 | ruby-tcltk-1.8.5-29.el5_9.x86_64.rpm |