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ELSA-2012-0069 Moderate: Oracle Linux ruby security update

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ELSA-2012-0069 Moderate: Oracle Linux ruby security update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

12/29/2011

Created

07/25/2018

Added

02/03/2012

Modified

07/04/2017

Description

Ruby (aka CRuby) before 1.8.7-p357 computes hash values without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted input to an application that maintains a hash table.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-docs
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-irb
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-libs
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-rdoc
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-ri
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-static
oracle-linux-upgrade-ruby-tcltk

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2011-4815
APPLE-SA-2012-05-09-1
903934
CVE - 2011-4815
RHSA-2012:0069
RHSA-2012:0070
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2012-January/002577.html
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