CVE-2008-3790
Fixed in a distro release EPSS 15%
The REXML module in Ruby 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p287, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p72, and 1.9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML document with recursively nested entities, aka an "XML entity explosion."
Products: ruby-lang ruby
Distro releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 4.0 | ruby1.8 | 1.8.5-4etch3 |
| Debian 4.0 | ruby1.9 | 1.9.0+20060609-1etch3 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | irb | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby-debuginfo | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby-devel | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby-docs | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby-libs | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby-mode | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby-tcltk | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-debuginfo | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-devel | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-docs | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-irb | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-libs | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-mode | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-rdoc | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-ri | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-tcltk | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |