Bug 1157872 – CVE-2014-7813 CFME: rails .to_sym symbol DoS

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Bug 1157872 - (CVE-2014-7813) CVE-2014-7813 CFME: rails .to_sym symbol DoS

Summary:	CVE-2014-7813 CFME: rails .to_sym symbol DoS

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	CVE-2014-7813

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1157874 1157880
Blocks:	1157873
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Reported:	2014-10-27 19:49 EDT by Kurt Seifried
Modified:	2014-11-10 04:39 EST (History)
CC List:	14 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2014-11-06 15:33:30 EST
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Description Kurt Seifried 2014-10-27 19:49:53 EDT

Aaron Patterson of Red Hat reports:

There are a number of locations in the code where .to_sym is called on user 
supplied code, resulting in a potential DoS condition as an attacker can 
insert symbols that are never garbage collected.

Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2014-10-27 19:56:52 EDT

Acknowledgement:

This issue was discovered by Aaron Patterson of the Red CloudForms Team.

Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2014-11-06 15:32:32 EST

Statement:

This issue affects the versions of cfme as shipped with Red Hat CloudForms 3. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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