Scientific Linux alert SL-ruby-20130307 (ruby)

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Pat Riehecky <riehecky@fnal.gov> 
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<SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-ERRATA@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV> 
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Security ERRATA Moderate: ruby on SL5.x i386/x86_64 
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Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:17:21 -0600
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Synopsis:          Moderate: ruby security update
Issue Date:        2013-03-07
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2013-1821
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It was discovered that Ruby's REXML library did not properly restrict XML
entity expansion. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of
service by tricking a Ruby application using REXML to read text nodes from
specially-crafted XML content, which will result in REXML consuming large
amounts of system memory. (CVE-2013-1821)
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SL5
   x86_64
     ruby-1.8.5-29.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
     ruby-debuginfo-1.8.5-29.el5_9.i386.rpm
     ruby-debuginfo-1.8.5-29.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
     ruby-docs-1.8.5-29.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
     ruby-irb-1.8.5-29.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
     ruby-libs-1.8.5-29.el5_9.i386.rpm
     ruby-libs-1.8.5-29.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
     ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-29.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
     ruby-ri-1.8.5-29.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
     ruby-tcltk-1.8.5-29.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
     ruby-devel-1.8.5-29.el5_9.i386.rpm
     ruby-devel-1.8.5-29.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
     ruby-mode-1.8.5-29.el5_9.x86_64.rpm
   i386
     ruby-1.8.5-29.el5_9.i386.rpm
     ruby-debuginfo-1.8.5-29.el5_9.i386.rpm
     ruby-docs-1.8.5-29.el5_9.i386.rpm
     ruby-irb-1.8.5-29.el5_9.i386.rpm
     ruby-libs-1.8.5-29.el5_9.i386.rpm
     ruby-rdoc-1.8.5-29.el5_9.i386.rpm
     ruby-ri-1.8.5-29.el5_9.i386.rpm
     ruby-tcltk-1.8.5-29.el5_9.i386.rpm
     ruby-devel-1.8.5-29.el5_9.i386.rpm
     ruby-mode-1.8.5-29.el5_9.i386.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team