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Advisory details: github_osv / GHSA-hgg7-cghq-xhf4
Advisory ID github_osv/GHSA-hgg7-cghq-xhf4
Aliases CVE-2013-1821
Summary Ruby vulnerable to denial of service When reading text nodes from an XML document, the REXML parser can be coerced in to allocating extremely large string objects which can consume all of the memory on a machine, causing a denial of service. Jruby resolves this bug in version 1.7.3 as noted in https://www.jruby.org/2013/02/21/jruby-1-7-3.html
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
System Score Found at
generic_textual MODERATE
Reference id Reference type URL
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702525
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00015.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00034.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00036.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1147.html
https://github.com/jruby/jruby
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=39384
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0092
https://www.jruby.org/2013/02/21/jruby-1-7-3.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2738
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2809
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/06/5
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/22/rexml-dos-2013-02-22
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2013&m=slackware-security.426862
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1780-1
914716 Bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914716
CVE-2013-1821 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1821
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