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| <glsa id="200906-02"> |
| <title>Ruby: Denial of Service</title> |
| <synopsis> |
| A flaw in the Ruby standard library might allow remote attackers to cause a |
| Denial of Service attack. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">ruby</product> |
| <announced>June 28, 2009</announced> |
| <revised>June 28, 2009: 01</revised> |
| <bug>273213</bug> |
| <access>remote</access> |
| <affected> |
| <package name="dev-lang/ruby" auto="yes" arch="*"> |
| <unaffected range="ge">1.8.6_p369</unaffected> |
| <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.6_p369</vulnerable> |
| </package> |
| </affected> |
| <background> |
| <p> |
| Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language. The |
| elaborate standard library includes the "BigDecimal" class. |
| </p> |
| </background> |
| <description> |
| <p> |
| Tadayoshi Funaba reported that BigDecimal in |
| ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c does not properly handle string arguments |
| containing overly long numbers. |
| </p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="normal"> |
| <p> |
| A remote attacker could exploit this issue to remotely cause a Denial |
| of Service attack. |
| </p> |
| </impact> |
| <workaround> |
| <p> |
| There is no known workaround at this time. |
| </p> |
| </workaround> |
| <resolution> |
| <p> |
| All Ruby users should upgrade to the latest version: |
| </p> |
| <code> |
| # emerge --sync |
| # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ruby-1.8.6_p369"</code> |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1904">CVE-2009-1904</uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:29:50 +0000"> |
| a3li |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:32:27 +0000"> |
| a3li |
| </metadata> |
| </glsa> |