MEDIUM
GHSA-6c8p-qphv-668v
Denial of service in ruby-openid
Quick fix
GHSA-6c8p-qphv-668v — ruby-openid: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
bundle update ruby-openidDetails
The ruby-openid gem before 2.2.2 for Ruby allows remote OpenID providers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via (1) a large XRDS document or (2) an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.
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Affected packages
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1812[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/pull/43[WEB]
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/commit/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508ed[WEB]
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918134[WEB]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6c8p-qphv-668v[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md[WEB]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/ruby-openid/CVE-2013-1812.yml[WEB]
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120204.html[WEB]
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120361.html[WEB]
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/03/8[WEB]