[ MDVSA-2015:129 ] ruby

 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2015:129
 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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 Package : ruby
 Date    : March 29, 2015
 Affected: Business Server 2.0
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 Problem Description:

 Updated ruby packages fix security vulnerabilities:

 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).

 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).

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 References:

 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8080
 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-2014-0443.html
 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0472.html
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 Updated Packages:

 Mandriva Business Server 2/X86_64:
 21f6497011d5c12d481fd03fa53302ee  mbs2/x86_64/lib64ruby2.0-2.0.0.p598-1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
 577db59ed8804f75ab194a1076523182  mbs2/x86_64/ruby-2.0.0.p598-1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
 1fcae47502636f81267d2091d2e6f16a  mbs2/x86_64/ruby-devel-2.0.0.p598-1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
 11d103d52f5050ee72abb7313f6c92f0  mbs2/x86_64/ruby-doc-2.0.0.p598-1.mbs2.noarch.rpm
 bab70f79054bac5869ac9d94301e761a  mbs2/x86_64/ruby-irb-2.0.0.p598-1.mbs2.noarch.rpm
 aef9f2690106b692cfbb0c9808722033  mbs2/x86_64/ruby-tk-2.0.0.p598-1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
 3a6998dd32576a04a1af77d0698bcc28  mbs2/SRPMS/ruby-2.0.0.p598-1.mbs2.src.rpm
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 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

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 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

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

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