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Bug 138362

Summary: CAN-2004-0983 Denial of Service in Ruby
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: rubyAssignee: Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Bill Huang <bhuang>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 3.0Keywords: Security
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Patch from upstream to fix this issue. none

Description Josh Bressers 2004-11-08 16:26:35 UTC 
Upstream has fixed a denial of service issue in ruby.  The CGI module
could enter into an infinite loop if a specially crafted request is
sent to it.

This issue also affects RHEL2.1
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2004-11-08 16:52:45 UTC 
Created attachment 106289 [details]
Patch from upstream to fix this issue.
Comment 2 Akira TAGOH 2004-11-09 07:47:18 UTC 
Thanks for letting me know. I'll work on this.
Comment 3 Akira TAGOH 2004-11-10 07:25:04 UTC 
this issue should be fixed in 1.6.8-9.EL3.3 for RHEL3 and
1.6.4-2.AS21.1 for AS2.1
Comment 4 Mark J. Cox 2004-12-13 18:53:55 UTC 
An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-635.html