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CVE Vulnerability Details :

CVE-2014-8090

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Assigner Org ID-53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749

Published At-21 Nov, 2014 | 15:00

Updated At-06 Aug, 2024 | 13:10

▼CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) a crafted XML document containing an empty string in an entity that is used in a large number of nested entity references, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1821 and CVE-2014-8080.

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References

Hyperlink	Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00035.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/59948	third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1912.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3159	vendor-advisory x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://secunia.com/advisories/62050	third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_APPLE
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1913.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
https://support.apple.com/HT205267	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1911.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3157	vendor-advisory x_refsource_DEBIAN
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0472.html	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2412-1	vendor-advisory x_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/62748	third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:129	vendor-advisory x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71230	vdb-entry x_refsource_BID
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00004.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_SUSE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1914.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00000.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_SUSE

Hyperlink: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00035.html

Resource:

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

Hyperlink: http://secunia.com/advisories/59948

Resource:

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

Hyperlink: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1912.html

Resource:

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

Hyperlink: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3159

Resource:

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

Hyperlink: http://secunia.com/advisories/62050

Resource:

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

Hyperlink: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html

Resource:

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_APPLE

Hyperlink: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

Resource:

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Hyperlink: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1913.html

Resource:

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

Hyperlink: https://support.apple.com/HT205267

Resource:

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Hyperlink: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1911.html

Resource:

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

Hyperlink: http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3157

Resource:

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

Hyperlink: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0472.html

Resource:

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Hyperlink: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/

Resource:

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Hyperlink: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2412-1

Resource:

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

Hyperlink: http://secunia.com/advisories/62748

Resource:

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

Hyperlink: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:129

Resource:

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_MANDRIVA

Hyperlink: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71230

Resource:

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

Hyperlink: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00004.html

Resource:

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

Hyperlink: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1914.html

Resource:

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

Hyperlink: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00000.html

Resource:

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

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References

Hyperlink	Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00035.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_SUSE x_transferred
http://secunia.com/advisories/59948	third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA x_transferred
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1912.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT x_transferred
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3159	vendor-advisory x_refsource_DEBIAN x_transferred
http://secunia.com/advisories/62050	third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA x_transferred
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_APPLE x_transferred
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html	x_refsource_CONFIRM x_transferred
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1913.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT x_transferred
https://support.apple.com/HT205267	x_refsource_CONFIRM x_transferred
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1911.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT x_transferred
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3157	vendor-advisory x_refsource_DEBIAN x_transferred
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0472.html	x_refsource_CONFIRM x_transferred
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/	x_refsource_CONFIRM x_transferred
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2412-1	vendor-advisory x_refsource_UBUNTU x_transferred
http://secunia.com/advisories/62748	third-party-advisory x_refsource_SECUNIA x_transferred
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:129	vendor-advisory x_refsource_MANDRIVA x_transferred
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71230	vdb-entry x_refsource_BID x_transferred
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00004.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_SUSE x_transferred
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1914.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_REDHAT x_transferred
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00000.html	vendor-advisory x_refsource_SUSE x_transferred