Synopsis: Moderate: ruby security update
Issue Date: 2013-03-07
CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-4481
CVE-2013-1821
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It was discovered that Ruby’s REXML library did not properly restrict XML
entity expansion. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of
service by tricking a Ruby application using REXML to read text nodes from
specially-crafted XML content, which will result in REXML consuming large
amounts of system memory. (CVE-2013-1821)
It was found that the SLSA-2011:0910 update did not correctly fix the
CVE-2011-1005 issue, a flaw in the method for translating an exception
message into a string in the Exception class. A remote attacker could use
this flaw to bypass safe level 4 restrictions, allowing untrusted
(tainted) code to modify arbitrary, trusted (untainted) strings, which
safe level 4 restrictions would otherwise prevent. (CVE-2012-4481)
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SL6
x86_64
ruby-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
ruby-debuginfo-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.i686.rpm
ruby-debuginfo-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.i686.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
ruby-irb-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.i686.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
ruby-rdoc-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
ruby-docs-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
ruby-ri-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
ruby-static-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
i386
ruby-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.i686.rpm
ruby-debuginfo-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.i686.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.i686.rpm
ruby-irb-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.i686.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.i686.rpm
ruby-rdoc-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.i686.rpm
ruby-docs-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.i686.rpm
ruby-ri-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.i686.rpm
ruby-static-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.i686.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.i686.rpm
– Scientific Linux Development Team
