MGASA-2014-0472

Advisory lineage Upstream: 2 Downstream: 0
Published: 21 Nov 2014, 12:44
Last modified:16 Apr 2026, 06:26

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

21 Nov 2014, 12:44
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
16 Apr 2026, 06:26
Last Modified
Vulnerability 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).

Affected Systems

  • mageia•ruby

    < 1.9.3.p551-1.mga3

  • mageia•ruby

    < 2.0.0.p598-1.mga4

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