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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:46:03 +0300
From: Pınar Yanardağ <pinar@...dus.org.tr>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request (ruby)
Jan Lieskovsky wrote On 25-08-2008 16:20:
> Hello Steve,
>
> Ruby upstream has announced another security flaw
> (DoS vulnerability in REXML module):
>
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerability-in-rexml/
>
> Test case available in part: "Impact".
>
> Proposed preliminary fix: http://www.ruby-lang.org/security/20080823rexml/rexml-expansion-fix.rb
>
There is an ongoing discussion on comp.lang.ruby about announcing this
flaw more focused on Rails more than Ruby. [1] I am agree the majority
of vulnerable apps are Rails' but there is still no update for Ruby's
standart library in 3 days, though.
[1]:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/19f69e8a081fc0d1/e138e014b74352ca?#e138e014b74352ca
> Testing status: REXML parsing of provided *.xml file causes
> 100% cpu usage for about 1 and 1/4 minutes
> (checked the ruby-1.8.5-5.5 case).
>
> Could you please assign a CVE id for it?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Kind regards
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky
> RH Security Response Team
>
>
Regards,
--
Pınar Yanardağ
http://pinguar.org
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