RHSA-2014:1912Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update

Published
November 26, 2014
Last Modified
November 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2014-4975 →CVE-2014-8080 →CVE-2014-8090 →

📋 Description

CVE-2014-4975 — ruby: off-by-one stack-based buffer overflow in the encodes() function CVE-2014-8080 — ruby: REXML billion laughs attack via parameter entity expansion CVE-2014-8090 — ruby: REXML incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8080

🎯 Affected products112

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7)
  • ruby-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • ruby-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • ruby-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • ruby-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • ruby-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • ruby-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • ruby-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • ruby-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • ruby-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • ruby-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • ruby-debuginfo-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • ruby-debuginfo-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • ruby-debuginfo-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • ruby-debuginfo-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • ruby-debuginfo-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • ruby-debuginfo-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • ruby-debuginfo-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • ruby-debuginfo-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • ruby-debuginfo-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • ruby-debuginfo-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7)
  • ruby-debuginfo-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • ruby-debuginfo-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

🔗 References (6)