Hash#slice in lib/i18n/core_ext/hash.rb in the i18n gem before 0.8.0 for Ruby allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a call in a situation where :some_key is present in keep_keys but not present in the hash.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Hash#slice in lib/i18n/core_ext/hash.rb in the i18n gem before 0.8.0 for Ruby allows remote attackers to     cause a denial of service (application crash) via a call in a situation where :some_key is present in     keep_keys but not present in the hash. (CVE-2014-10077)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Fix denial of service in Hash#slice in lib/i18n/core_ext/hash.rb (CVE-2014-10077).

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It was discovered that there was a remote denial of service vulnerability in ruby-i18n, a I18n and localization solution for Ruby.

An application crash could be engineering a situation where `:some_key` is present in the `keep_keys` structure but not present in the hash.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in ruby-i18n version 0.6.9-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ruby-i18n packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255076	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2014-10077	Nessus	Misc.	high
119244	Fedora 27 : rubygem-i18n (2018-4febd7f702)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
119101	Debian DLA-1584-1 : ruby-i18n security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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