GHSA-6c8p-qphv-668v

Denial of service in ruby-openid

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-1812

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	ruby-openid	< 2.2.2	2.2.2

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

The ruby-openid gem before 2.2.2 for Ruby allows remote OpenID providers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via (1) a large XRDS document or (2) an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1812 advisory
https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/pull/43 web
https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/commit/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508ed web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918134 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6c8p-qphv-668v advisory
https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid package
https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md web
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/ruby-openid/CVE-2013-1812.yml web
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120204.html web
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120361.html web
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/03/8 web