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61 lines
1.8 KiB
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="200906-02">
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<title>Ruby: Denial of Service</title>
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<synopsis>
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A flaw in the Ruby standard library might allow remote attackers to cause a
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Denial of Service attack.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">ruby</product>
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<announced>2009-06-28</announced>
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<revised count="01">2009-06-28</revised>
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<bug>273213</bug>
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<access>remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="dev-lang/ruby" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">1.8.6_p369</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">1.8.6_p369</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>
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Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language. The
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elaborate standard library includes the "BigDecimal" class.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>
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Tadayoshi Funaba reported that BigDecimal in
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ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c does not properly handle string arguments
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containing overly long numbers.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>
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A remote attacker could exploit this issue to remotely cause a Denial
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of Service attack.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>
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There is no known workaround at this time.
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</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>
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All Ruby users should upgrade to the latest version:
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</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ruby-1.8.6_p369"</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1904">CVE-2009-1904</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-06-21T14:29:50Z">
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a3li
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-06-28T21:32:27Z">
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a3li
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</metadata>
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</glsa>
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