The REXML module in Ruby 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p287, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p72, and 1.9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML document with recursively nested entities, aka an "XML entity explosion."
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44628 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3790 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10393 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/651-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/691-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3790 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00259.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00299.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-08-27T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:52:59.694Z

Reserved: 2008-08-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-3790

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-08-27T20:41:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:50:08.380

Link: CVE-2008-3790

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-08-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-3790 - Bugzilla