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Bug 1046664 - (CVE-2013-6461) CVE-2013-6461 rubygem-nokogiri: DoS while parsing XML entities
CVE-2013-6461 rubygem-nokogiri: DoS while parsing XML entities
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20131215,repor...
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Depends On: 1046665
Blocks: 1046667
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Reported: 2013-12-26 08:14 EST by Ratul Gupta
Modified: 2016-04-26 22:34 EDT (History)
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Fixed In Version: rubygem-nokogiri 1.5.11, rubygem-nokogiri 1.6.1
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Last Closed: 2014-01-23 14:23:51 EST
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Description Ratul Gupta 2013-12-26 08:14:53 EST
Nokogiri gem for Ruby was found to be affected by a DoS vulnerability, where an error when parsing XML entities and can be exploited to exhaust memory and cause a crash via a specially crafted XML document including external entity references.

This issue is said to be affecting the versions 1.5.x and 1.6.x, 1.4.x and earlier versions are reported to be not affected by this vulnerability.

This issue is said to be fixed in versions 1.5.11 and 1.6.1.

References:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495218

Original Advisory:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/DeJpjTAg1FA
Comment 1 Ratul Gupta 2013-12-26 08:19:17 EST
Created rubygem-nokogiri tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1046665]
Comment 2 Ratul Gupta 2013-12-27 00:18:36 EST
CVE Request:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/551
Comment 3 Mamoru TASAKA 2013-12-27 05:20:51 EST
Setting needinfo also here. See bug 1046663 comment 2
Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2014-01-23 14:23:51 EST
This issue does not affect anything we ship.  While the nokogiri rubygem is included in Fedora and EPEL, there is no JRuby implementation provided on either platform.

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