XML Entity Expansion (XEE)

ruby is vulnerable to XML Entity Expansion XEE attacks. The vulnerability exists as the REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Enti...

Amazon Linux AMI : ruby20 (ALAS-2014-441)

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion XEE attack. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Medium: ruby21

Issue Overview: The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion XEE attack. Affected Packages: ruby21 Issue Correction:...