MGASA-2014-0443

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    MGASA-2014-0443

    Published: 14 Nov 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-8080

    Summary: Updated ruby packages fix CVE-2014-8080

    Details: Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerability: Due to unrestricted entity expansion, 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-2014-8080). The Mageia 3 ruby package has been updated to 1.9.3-p550 and the Mageia 4 ruby package has been updated to 2.0.0-p594 to fix this issue and several other bugs.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0443.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14391, https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/10/27/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8080/, https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/10/27/ruby-1-9-3-p550-is-released/, https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/10/27/ruby-2-0-0-p594-is-released/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ruby

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/ruby?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.9.3.p550-1.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High