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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-225

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-225
Posted Nov 25, 2014
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-225 - Will Wood discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled the encodes() function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Ruby to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service. Due to an incomplete fix for 100% CPU utilization can occur as a result of recursive expansion with an empty String. 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. Additionally ruby has been upgraded to patch level 374.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary, ruby
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2014-4975, CVE-2014-8090
SHA-256 | d2439eb4aac15fb7ad6deed92bf9356a7b28b2c87ab6702fba7654a4613543c6

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-225

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:225
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : ruby
Date : November 25, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:

Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerabilities:

Will Wood discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled the encodes()
function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Ruby to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce
the vulnerability to a denial of service (CVE-2014-4975).

Due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8080, 100% CPU utilization can
occur as a result of recursive expansion with an empty String. 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-2014-8090).

Additionally ruby has been upgraded to patch level 374.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4975
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8090
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0472.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
e22981ec1b8a1fd7824c24fd39d9d200 mbs1/x86_64/ruby-1.8.7.p374-1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
d81f5681835f08cd145758aaecbbcd01 mbs1/x86_64/ruby-devel-1.8.7.p374-1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
a44519df56835ea072ab18aa6b25aaed mbs1/x86_64/ruby-doc-1.8.7.p374-1.mbs1.noarch.rpm
5f7a4762fab7772bdec459a61bce733e mbs1/x86_64/ruby-tk-1.8.7.p374-1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
fe9618b0ff75faa50c5cb5dd84c179ed mbs1/SRPMS/ruby-1.8.7.p374-1.mbs1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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