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authorAlec Warner <antarus@scriptkitty.com>2011-03-03 14:17:24 -0800
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<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 &quot;&gt;=dev-lang/ruby-1.8.6_p369&quot;</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>