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CVE-2013-1802
critical
Description
The extlib gem 0.9.15 and earlier for Ruby does not properly restrict casts of string values, which might allow remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) by leveraging Action Pack support for (1) YAML type conversion or (2) Symbol type conversion, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-0156.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917233
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00002.html