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GLSA-200906-02 : Ruby: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39565

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200906-02 (Ruby: Denial of Service)

 Tadayoshi Funaba reported that BigDecimal in ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c does not properly handle string arguments containing overly long numbers.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could exploit this issue to remotely cause a Denial of Service attack.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Ruby users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=dev-lang/ruby-1.8.6_p369'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200906-02

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39565

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200906-02.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 6/29/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:ruby, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/28/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1904

BID: 35278

CWE: 189

GLSA: 200906-02