Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2013-195
Advisory Release Date: 2013-05-24 13:57 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-15 23:07 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Affected Packages:
ruby19
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ruby19 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
ruby19-1.9.3.392-29.38.amzn1.i686
rubygem19-json-1.5.5-29.38.amzn1.i686
ruby19-devel-1.9.3.392-29.38.amzn1.i686
ruby19-libs-1.9.3.392-29.38.amzn1.i686
ruby19-debuginfo-1.9.3.392-29.38.amzn1.i686
rubygem19-io-console-0.3-29.38.amzn1.i686
rubygem19-bigdecimal-1.1.0-29.38.amzn1.i686
ruby19-doc-1.9.3.392-29.38.amzn1.i686
noarch:
rubygem19-minitest-2.5.1-29.38.amzn1.noarch
ruby19-irb-1.9.3.392-29.38.amzn1.noarch
rubygems19-devel-1.8.23-29.38.amzn1.noarch
rubygem19-rdoc-3.9.5-29.38.amzn1.noarch
rubygems19-1.8.23-29.38.amzn1.noarch
rubygem19-rake-0.9.2.2-29.38.amzn1.noarch
src:
ruby19-1.9.3.392-29.38.amzn1.src
x86_64:
ruby19-debuginfo-1.9.3.392-29.38.amzn1.x86_64
ruby19-libs-1.9.3.392-29.38.amzn1.x86_64
ruby19-devel-1.9.3.392-29.38.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem19-bigdecimal-1.1.0-29.38.amzn1.x86_64
ruby19-1.9.3.392-29.38.amzn1.x86_64
ruby19-doc-1.9.3.392-29.38.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem19-io-console-0.3-29.38.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem19-json-1.5.5-29.38.amzn1.x86_64