CVE-2014-8090

Name	CVE-2014-8090
Description	The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3 patchlevel 551, 2.0.x before 2.0.0 patchlevel 598, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) a crafted XML document containing an empty string in an entity that is used in a large number of nested entity references, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-1821 and CVE-2014-8080.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-200-1, DLA-88-1, DSA-3157-1, DSA-3159-1
Debian Bugs	770932

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin	Debian Bugs
ruby1.8	source	squeeze	1.8.7.302-2squeeze3	DLA-88-1
ruby1.8	source	wheezy	1.8.7.358-7.1+deb7u2	DSA-3159-1
ruby1.8	source	(unstable)	(not affected)
ruby1.9.1	source	squeeze	1.9.2.0-2+deb6u3	DLA-200-1
ruby1.9.1	source	wheezy	1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u3	DSA-3157-1
ruby1.9.1	source	(unstable)	(not affected)
ruby2.0	source	(unstable)	(not affected)
ruby2.1	source	(unstable)	2.1.5-1		770932

Notes

- ruby1.8 <not-affected> (Incomplete fix never relesed for 1.9)
- ruby1.9.1 <not-affected> (Incomplete fix never relesed for 1.9)
- ruby2.0 <not-affected> (Incomplete fix never relesed for 1.9)
For the incomplete fix for CVE-2014-8080
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/11/13/rexml-dos-cve-2014-8090/