Bug 460156 – <dev-ruby/ruby-openid-2.2.2: XML denial of service attack (CVE-2013-1812)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2013-03-03 17:25:28 UTC]

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ruby-openid is affected by a XML denial of service (Entity Expansion Attack / out of memory) attack
as recently described.

https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/commit/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508ed
https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/pull/43
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804717

[Comment 1 Hans de Graaff 2013-03-03 17:40:20 UTC]

We already have the fixed version of ruby-openid in the tree, so we can mark that stable:

=dev-ruby/ruby-openid-2.2.2

[Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-03-04 09:12:01 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-03-04 09:21:21 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 4 Tobias Heinlein (RETIRED) 2013-03-24 19:49:07 UTC]

Ready for vote, I vote YES.

[Comment 5 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) 2013-04-09 22:59:55 UTC]

GLSA vote: yes.

GLSA drafted and ready for review.

[Comment 6 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2013-12-27 01:53:26 UTC]

CVE-2013-1812 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1812):
  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.

[Comment 7 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2014-05-17 19:35:33 UTC]

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201405-14 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-14.xml
by GLSA coordinator Sean Amoss (ackle).