gsd-2008-3790
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:23
Details
The REXML module in Ruby 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p287, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p72, and 1.9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML document with recursively nested entities, aka an "XML entity explosion."
Aliases
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}
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