GHSA-HGG7-CGHQ-XHF4

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 03:23 – Updated: 2023-08-16 09:36
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Summary
Ruby vulnerable to denial of service
Details

When reading text nodes from an XML document, the REXML parser can be coerced in to allocating extremely large string objects which can consume all of the memory on a machine, causing a denial of service.

Jruby resolves this bug in version 1.7.3 as noted in https://www.jruby.org/2013/02/21/jruby-1-7-3.html

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Maven",
        "name": "org.jruby:jruby"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.7.3"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2013-1821"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-400"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2022-11-08T12:51:05Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2013-04-09T21:55:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "When reading text nodes from an XML document, the REXML parser can be coerced in to allocating extremely large string objects which can consume all of the memory on a machine, causing a denial of service.\n\nJruby resolves this bug in version 1.7.3 as noted in https://www.jruby.org/2013/02/21/jruby-1-7-3.html",
  "id": "GHSA-hgg7-cghq-xhf4",
  "modified": "2023-08-16T09:36:12Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T03:23:26Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1821"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914716"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/jruby/jruby"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0092"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.jruby.org/2013/02/21/jruby-1-7-3.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702525"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00001.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00015.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00034.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-04/msg00036.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1147.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision\u0026revision=39384"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2738"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2809"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/06/5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/22/rexml-dos-2013-02-22"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security\u0026y=2013\u0026m=slackware-security.426862"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1780-1"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [],
  "summary": "Ruby vulnerable to denial of service"
}


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