MEDIUM
GHSA-j96r-xvjq-r9pg
activesupport vulnerable to Denial of Service via large XML document depth
Details
The (1) `jdom.rb` and (2) `rexml.rb` components in Active Support in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22, 4.1.x before 4.1.11, and 4.2.x before 4.2.2, when JDOM or REXML is enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SystemStackError) via a large XML document depth.
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Affected packages
RubyGems / activesupport
Introduced in:
4.0.0.beta1 Fixed in: 4.1.11 Fix
bundle update activesupport References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3227 [ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/12f763ce1131d29d24bd0d8f868e2697a139aea3 [WEB]
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/153cc843ad95930b00b0ca91d30b599b7dec9680 [WEB]
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/78b29e08c700d889837af6c51c7debd3864abc3d [WEB]
- https://github.com/rails/rails [PACKAGE]
- https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/bahr2JLnxvk/x4EocXnHPp8J [WEB]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200228041703/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75234 [WEB]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200517005133/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033755 [WEB]
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00050.html [WEB]
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/16 [WEB]
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464 [WEB]