Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1780-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : ruby1.8, ruby1.9.1 vulnerability (USN-1780-1)

Ben Murphy discovered that the Ruby REXML library incorrectly handled XML entity expansion. An attacker could use this flaw to cause Ruby to consume large amounts of memory, resulting in a denial of service. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly...