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Posted on 31 March 2015
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:129
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : ruby
Date : March 29, 2015
Affected: Business Server 2.0
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Problem Description:
Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerabilities:
Due to unrestricted entity expansion, when reading text nodes from an
XML document, the REXML parser in Ruby can be coerced into allocating
extremely large string objects which can consume all of the memory
on a machine, causing a denial of service (CVE-2014-8080).
Will Wood discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled the encodes()
function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Ruby to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce
the vulnerability to a denial of service (CVE-2014-4975).
Due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8080, 100% CPU utilization can
occur as a result of recursive expansion with an empty String. When
reading text nodes from an XML document, the REXML parser in Ruby can
be coerced into allocating extremely large string objects which can
consume all of the memory on a machine, causing a denial of service
(CVE-2014-8090).
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8080
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4975
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8090
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0443.html
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0472.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 2/X86_64:
21f6497011d5c12d481fd03fa53302ee mbs2/x86_64/lib64ruby2.0-2.0.0.p598-1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
577db59ed8804f75ab194a1076523182 mbs2/x86_64/ruby-2.0.0.p598-1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
1fcae47502636f81267d2091d2e6f16a mbs2/x86_64/ruby-devel-2.0.0.p598-1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
11d103d52f5050ee72abb7313f6c92f0 mbs2/x86_64/ruby-doc-2.0.0.p598-1.mbs2.noarch.rpm
bab70f79054bac5869ac9d94301e761a mbs2/x86_64/ruby-irb-2.0.0.p598-1.mbs2.noarch.rpm
aef9f2690106b692cfbb0c9808722033 mbs2/x86_64/ruby-tk-2.0.0.p598-1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
3a6998dd32576a04a1af77d0698bcc28 mbs2/SRPMS/ruby-2.0.0.p598-1.mbs2.src.rpm
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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