CVE-2013-1821

Publication date 7 March 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Description

lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ruby1.8	13.10 saucy	Not affected
	13.04 raring	Not affected
	12.10 quantal	Fixed in 1.8.7.358-4ubuntu0.2
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed in 1.8.7.352-2ubuntu1.2
	11.10 oneiric	Fixed in 1.8.7.352-2ubuntu0.3
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed in 1.8.7.249-2ubuntu0.3
	8.04 LTS hardy	Ignored end of life
ruby1.9.1	13.10 saucy	Fixed in 1.9.3.194-8.1ubuntu1
	13.04 raring	Fixed in 1.9.3.194-8.1ubuntu1
	12.10 quantal	Fixed in 1.9.3.194-1ubuntu1.4
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed in 1.9.3.0-1ubuntu2.6
	11.10 oneiric	Ignored end of life
	10.04 LTS lucid	Ignored end of life
	8.04 LTS hardy	Not in release

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
ruby1.9.1	Upstream: http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=39384

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-1780-1
Ruby vulnerability
25 March 2013