Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-441
Advisory Release Date: 2014-11-05 12:16 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-11-05 14:40 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:
ruby20
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ruby20 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
ruby20-debuginfo-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1.i686
ruby20-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1.i686
ruby20-devel-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1.i686
rubygem20-bigdecimal-1.2.0-1.19.amzn1.i686
rubygem20-psych-2.0.0-1.19.amzn1.i686
ruby20-libs-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1.i686
rubygem20-io-console-0.4.2-1.19.amzn1.i686
noarch:
rubygems20-2.0.14-1.19.amzn1.noarch
ruby20-doc-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1.noarch
rubygems20-devel-2.0.14-1.19.amzn1.noarch
ruby20-irb-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1.noarch
src:
ruby20-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1.src
x86_64:
rubygem20-psych-2.0.0-1.19.amzn1.x86_64
ruby20-debuginfo-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1.x86_64
ruby20-libs-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1.x86_64
ruby20-devel-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1.x86_64
ruby20-2.0.0.594-1.19.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem20-io-console-0.4.2-1.19.amzn1.x86_64
rubygem20-bigdecimal-1.2.0-1.19.amzn1.x86_64