Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1490845
CVE-2014-6438 ruby: Unsafe parsing of long strings via decode_www_form_component method
Last modified: 2017-09-12 07:21:09 EDT
The URI.decode_www_form_component method in Ruby before 1.9.2-p330 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (catastrophic regular expression backtracking, resource consumption, or application crash) via a crafted string. External References: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/08/19/ruby-1-9-2-p330-released/ References: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/13/5 https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/issues/817