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CentOS Update for ruby CESA-2013:0612 centos6
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update for the 'ruby' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to do system management tasks. 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 RHSA-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) The CVE-2012-4481 issue was discovered by Vit Ondruch of Red Hat. All users of Ruby are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues.
Affected Software
Affected Software
ruby on CentOS 6
Solution
Solution
Please install the updated packages.