Executive Summary

Summary
Title Ruby OpenID: Denial of Service
Informations
Name GLSA-201405-14 First vendor Publication 2014-05-17
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2014-05-17
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A vulnerability in Ruby OpenID may lead to Denial of Service.

Background

Ruby OpenID is a robust library for verifying and serving OpenID identities.

Description

An XML entity parsing error has been discovered in Ruby OpenID.

Impact

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted XML file, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Ruby OpenID users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/ruby-openid-2.2.2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-1812
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1812

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-14.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-14.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-05-19 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201405-14.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-11 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-20238.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-08 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-20260.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2014-05-20 13:23:30
  • Multiple Updates
2014-05-18 00:20:02
  • First insertion