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Unscored RHSA-2013:0611 1 CVE

Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update

Published Sep 15, 2024 · Updated May 19, 2026

Ecosystem: Red Hat

Fixed packages 10

ReleasePackageFixed in
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::server ruby 0:1.8.5-29.el5_9
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::server ruby-debuginfo 0:1.8.5-29.el5_9
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::server ruby-devel 0:1.8.5-29.el5_9
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::server ruby-docs 0:1.8.5-29.el5_9
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::server ruby-irb 0:1.8.5-29.el5_9
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::server ruby-libs 0:1.8.5-29.el5_9
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::server ruby-mode 0:1.8.5-29.el5_9
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::server ruby-rdoc 0:1.8.5-29.el5_9
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::server ruby-ri 0:1.8.5-29.el5_9
Red Hat · RHEL 5 enterprise_linux:5::server ruby-tcltk 0:1.8.5-29.el5_9

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium —
    CVE-2013-1821

    Ruby vulnerable to denial of service

    lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

    org.jruby:jruby Maven

References

  • article
    https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=914716
  • advisory
    https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2013/rhsa-2013_0611.json
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1821
  • advisory
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-1821
  • advisory
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1821
  • article
    http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/22/rexml-dos-2013-02-22/