CVE-2015-3227 - Invigorating Authorities

Description

The (1) jdom.rb and (2) rexml.rb components in Active Support in Ruby on Rails before 4.1.11 and 4.2.x before 4.2.2 when JDOM or REXML is enabled allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (SystemStackError) via a large XML document depth.

Reference

https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rubyonrails-security/bahr2JLnxvk/x4EocXnHPp8J http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/16 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-07/msg00050.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75234 http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3464 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033755