CVE-2015-3227

The (1) jdom.rb and (2) rexml.rb components in Active Support in Ruby on Rails before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x before 4.2.2, when JDOM or REXML is enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SystemStackError) via a large XML document depth.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2015-07-26

Last modified

2024-08-06

Affected products

• Opensuse (Opensuse)
• Rails (Rubyonrails)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00050.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/16
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75234
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033755
• https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/bahr2JLnxvk/x4EocXnHPp8J