CVE-2013-1812 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120204.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-November/120361.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/03/8 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918134 https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/commit/a3693cef06049563f5b4e4824f4d3211288508ed https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/pull/43