GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-j96r-xvjq-r9pg activesupport vulnerable to Denial of Service via large XML document depth
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- Aliases
- CVE-2015-3227
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- activesupport
- Severity
- Moderate
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• RubyGems activesupport: >= 4.0.0.beta1, < 4.1.11 → fixed in 4.1.11
• RubyGems activesupport: >= 4.2.0.beta1, < 4.2.2 → fixed in 4.2.2
• RubyGems activesupport: < 3.2.22 → fixed in 3.2.22
Description
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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2015-3227 The (1) jdom.rb and (2) rexml.rb components in Active Support in Ruby on Rails before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x before 4.2.2, when JDOM or REXML is… vulnerability
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