CVE-2013-4073

La función OpenSSL::SSL.verify_certificate_identity en lib/openssl/ssl.rb en Ruby v1.8 anterior a v1.8.7-p374, v1.9 anterior a v1.9.3-p448, y v2.0 anterior a v2.0.0-p247 no manejar adecuadamente un carácter “\0” en un nombre de dominio en el campo Subject Alternative Name de un certificado X.509, lo que permite a atacantes "man-in-the-middle" suplantar servidores SSL de su elección mediante un certificado manipulado expedido por una Autoridad Certificadora legítima, un problema relacionado con CVE-2009-2408.

The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.7 allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the NameError#to_s method when operating on Ruby objects. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005. lib/rexml/text.rb in the REXML parser in Ruby before 1.9.3-p392 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via crafted text nodes in an XML document, aka an XML Entity Expansion attack. A flaw was found in Ruby's SSL client's hostname identity check when handling certificates that contain hostnames with NULL bytes. An attacker could potentially exploit this flaw to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to spoof SSL servers. Note that to exploit this issue, an attacker would need to obtain a carefully-crafted certificate signed by an authority that the client trusts. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.