Source: ruby1.8 Severity: grave Tags: security upstream patch Hi,
the following vulnerability was published for ruby. CVE-2013-1821[0]: entity expansion DoS vulnerability in REXML More details are explained in the upstream announcement[1]. Patches (for ruby1.9.1) are commited to svn with revision r39384[2]. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1821 http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-1821 [1] http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/02/22/rexml-dos-2013-02-22/ [2] http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=39384 Could you doublecheck that ruby1.8 is also affected by this issue and adjust versions in the BTS as needed? Regards, Salvatore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org