MGASA-2014-0472: ruby Mageia
Vulnerability summary
MGASA-2014-0472 is a vulnerability in ruby Mageia with no CVSS score yet.
No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 2 · Downstream 0Timeline
- 21-11-2014PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 16-04-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerabilities Will Wood discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled the encodes() function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service (CVE-2014-4975). Due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8080, 100% CPU utilization can occur as a result of recursive expansion with an empty String. When reading text nodes from an XML document, the REXML parser in Ruby can be coerced into allocating extremely large string objects which can consume all of the memory on a machine, causing a denial of service (CVE-2014-8090).
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Known exploited
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Public exploits
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Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: not stated in public data.
Mageia2 products
- ruby< 1.9.3.p551-1.mga3
- ruby< 2.0.0.p598-1.mga4
1 vendor · 2 products