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SUSE: 2013:0647-1 Critical Update: Fix for Ruby 1.9 DoS Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey April 9, 2013
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SUSE Security Patch for Ruby 1.9 addresses urgent issues. Find out more about the security flaws and how to implement the updates.
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Summary

The Ruby script interpreter 1.9 has been updated to 1.9.3 p392 fixing various bugs and security issues: This release includes security fixes about bundled JSON and REXML. * Denial of Service and Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON (CVE-2013-0269) * Entity expansion DoS vulnerability in REXML (XML bomb) * XSS exploit of RDoc documentation generated by rdoc (CVE-2013-0256) And some small bugfixes are also included see /usr/share/doc/packages/ruby19/Changelog for more details Also the following bugfix was added: * added bind_stack.patch: (bnc#796757) Fixes stack boundary issues when embedding Ruby into threaded C code (Ruby bug #229) Security Issue reference: * CVE-2013-0269 Patch Instructions:

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References

#783511 #789983 #791199 #796757 #802406 #803342

Cross- CVE-2013-0269

Affected Products:

SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3

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

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:0647-1
Rating: important

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