Ruby openid XML Entity Expansion denial of service attack

2013-03-02 / 2013-03-04
Credit: Marcus
Risk: Medium
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CVE: N/A
CWE: N/A

Hi, 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 Ciao, Marcus

References:

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
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q1/539


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