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CVE-2014-8090
Published: Nov 21, 2014
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) a crafted XML document containing an empty string in an entity that is used in a large number of nested entity references, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1821 and CVE-2014-8080.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
openSUSE-SU-2014:1589
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
59948
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
RHSA-2014:1912
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
DSA-3159
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
62050
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
APPLE-SA-2015-09-30-3
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_APPLE
RHSA-2014:1913
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
https://support.apple.com/HT205267
x_refsource_CONFIRM
RHSA-2014:1911
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
DSA-3157
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0472.html
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/
x_refsource_CONFIRM
USN-2412-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
62748
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
MDVSA-2015:129
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_MANDRIVA
71230
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
openSUSE-SU-2015:0007
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
RHSA-2014:1914
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
openSUSE-SU-2015:0002
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
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