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.
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Advisories
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DSA-2738-1 | ruby1.9.1 security update |
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DSA-2809-1 | ruby1.8 security update |
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EUVD-2022-4143 | 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. |
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GHSA-hgg7-cghq-xhf4 | Ruby vulnerable to denial of service |
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USN-1780-1 | Ruby vulnerability |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T15:13:33.271Z
Reserved: 2013-02-19T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2013-1821

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2013-04-09T21:55:01.113
Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Link: CVE-2013-1821


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