RHSA-2014:1913 - Security Advisory

Topic

Updated ruby193-ruby packages that fix three security issues are now
available for Red Hat Software Collections 1.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security
impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give
detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the
CVE links in the References section.

Description

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language.
It has features to process text files and to perform system management
tasks.

Multiple denial of service flaws were found in the way the Ruby REXML XML
parser performed expansion of parameter entities. A specially crafted XML
document could cause REXML to use an excessive amount of CPU and memory.
(CVE-2014-8080, CVE-2014-8090)

A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the implementation of the Ruby
Array pack() method. When performing base64 encoding, a single byte could
be written past the end of the buffer, possibly causing Ruby to crash.
(CVE-2014-4975)

The CVE-2014-8090 issue was discovered by Red Hat Product Security.

All ruby193-ruby users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running
instances of Ruby need to be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the
Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1118158 - CVE-2014-4975 ruby: off-by-one stack-based buffer overflow in the encodes() function
• BZ - 1157709 - CVE-2014-8080 ruby: REXML billion laughs attack via parameter entity expansion
• BZ - 1159927 - CVE-2014-8090 ruby: REXML incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8080

CVEs

• CVE-2014-8080
• CVE-2014-4975
• CVE-2014-8090

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate