| Name | CVE-2014-8090 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-200-1, DLA-88-1, DSA-3157-1, DSA-3159-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 770932 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ruby2.1 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.1.5-2+deb8u14 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ruby1.8 | source | squeeze | 1.8.7.302-2squeeze3 | DLA-88-1 | ||
| ruby1.8 | source | wheezy | 1.8.7.358-7.1+deb7u2 | DSA-3159-1 | ||
| ruby1.8 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | |||
| ruby1.9.1 | source | squeeze | 1.9.2.0-2+deb6u3 | DLA-200-1 | ||
| ruby1.9.1 | source | wheezy | 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u3 | DSA-3157-1 | ||
| ruby1.9.1 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | |||
| ruby2.0 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | |||
| ruby2.1 | source | (unstable) | 2.1.5-1 | 770932 |
- ruby1.8 <not-affected> (Incomplete fix never relesed for 1.9)
- ruby1.9.1 <not-affected> (Incomplete fix never relesed for 1.9)
- ruby2.0 <not-affected> (Incomplete fix never relesed for 1.9)
For the incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8080
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/