| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|
| ruby | = 1.9.3= 2.0.0= 2.1.1= 2.1.2= 2.1.3= 2.1.4≤ 1.9.3 |
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.
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