CVE-2014-8080 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8080?

CVE-2014-8080 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 3 Nov 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The REXML parser in Ruby 1.9.x before 1.9.3-p550, 2.0.x before 2.0.0-p594, and 2.1.x before 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attack.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8080?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Opensuse Opensuse, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Ruby-Lang Ruby.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8080?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-8080 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8080 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-ggvr-v7qh-jwjh, MGASA-2014-0443, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8080.