Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-439
Advisory Release Date: 2014-11-05 12:13 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-11-05 14:38 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
Affected Packages:
ruby21
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ruby21 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
ruby21-libs-2.1.4-1.14.amzn1.i686
rubygem21-bigdecimal-1.2.4-1.14.amzn1.i686
ruby21-debuginfo-2.1.4-1.14.amzn1.i686
rubygem21-io-console-0.4.2-1.14.amzn1.i686
rubygem21-psych-2.0.5-1.14.amzn1.i686
ruby21-2.1.4-1.14.amzn1.i686
ruby21-devel-2.1.4-1.14.amzn1.i686
noarch:
rubygems21-2.2.2-1.14.amzn1.noarch
rubygems21-devel-2.2.2-1.14.amzn1.noarch
ruby21-irb-2.1.4-1.14.amzn1.noarch
ruby21-doc-2.1.4-1.14.amzn1.noarch
src:
ruby21-2.1.4-1.14.amzn1.src
x86_64:
ruby21-devel-2.1.4-1.14.amzn1.x86_64
ruby21-2.1.4-1.14.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem21-bigdecimal-1.2.4-1.14.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem21-io-console-0.4.2-1.14.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem21-psych-2.0.5-1.14.amzn1.x86_64
ruby21-libs-2.1.4-1.14.amzn1.x86_64
ruby21-debuginfo-2.1.4-1.14.amzn1.x86_64