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Asymmetric denial of service In activesupport

Description

activesupport vulnerable to Denial of Service via large XML document depth The (1) jdom.rb and (2) rexml.rb components in Active Support in Ruby on Rails before 3.2.22, 4.1.x 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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem
Component
Affected version
Patched versions

Aliases

1. CVE-2015-32272. NVD-2015-32273. OSV-2015-32274. OSV-DEBIAN-2015-32275. GCVE-2015-32276. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2015-3227

References

1. https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/12f763ce1131d29d24bd0d8f868e2697a139aea32. https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/153cc843ad95930b00b0ca91d30b599b7dec96803. https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/78b29e08c700d889837af6c51c7debd3864abc3d4. https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/bahr2JLnxvk/x4EocXnHPp8J5. https://web.archive.org/web/20200228041703/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/752346. https://web.archive.org/web/20200517005133/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/10337557. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00050.html8. http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/169. http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464

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