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SUSE: 2014:0723-2 Critical: Rubygem-Json Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey April 3, 2013
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An update from SUSE has been released to fix critical vulnerabilities in rubygem-crack aimed at mitigating risk of denial of service attacks.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

The Ruby Gem crack has been updated to 0.1.7 and to fix a security issue: * CVE-2013-1800: Multiple xml parsing issues were fixed that could be used by attackers able to inject XML to cause denial of service problems. Security Issue reference: * CVE-2013-0269 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2: zypper in -t patch slestso12-rubygem-crack-7530 - SUSE Studio Extension for System z 1.2: zypper in -t patch slestso12-rubygem-crack-7530 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2 (x86_64): rubygem-crack-0.1.7-0.5.4 - SUSE Studio Extension for System z 1.2 (s390x):

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service SUSE xml parsing rubygem-crack

References

#804721

Cross- CVE-2013-0269

Affected Products:

SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2

SUSE Studio Extension for System z 1.2

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-0269.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:0615-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service SUSE xml parsing rubygem-crack

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