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<glsa id="200411-23">
  <title>Ruby: Denial of Service issue</title>
  <synopsis>
    The CGI module in Ruby can be sent into an infinite loop, resulting in a
    Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Ruby</product>
  <announced>November 16, 2004</announced>
  <revised>November 16, 2004: 01</revised>
  <bug>69985</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-lang/ruby" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="rge">1.6.8-r12</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="ge">1.8.2_pre3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.2_pre3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
    object-oriented programming. Ruby's CGI module can be used to build web
    applications.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Ruby's developers found and fixed an issue in the CGI module that
    can be triggered remotely and cause an infinite loop.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could trigger the vulnerability through an
    exposed Ruby web application and cause the server to use unnecessary
    CPU resources, potentially resulting in a Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Ruby 1.6.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ruby-1.6.8-r12"</code>
    <p>
    All Ruby 1.8.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ruby-1.8.2_pre3"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0983">CAN-2004-0983</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:02:12 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:02:22 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:10:34 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>