Description
The regular expression engine (regex.c) in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p286, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p71, and 1.9 through r18423 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and crash) via multiple long requests to a Ruby socket, related to memory allocation failure, and as demonstrated against Webrick.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31430 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/651-1/ ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33185 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1695 ↗
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30682 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00299.html ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44688 ↗
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4158 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35074 ↗
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-424.htm ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021075 ↗
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0895.html ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0897.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33398 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32219 ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6239 ↗
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/691-1/ ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9570 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32371 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32165 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32372 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00259.html ↗