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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2013-4287: rubygems: version regex algorithmic complexity vulnerability

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2013-4287: rubygems: version regex algorithmic complexity vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/17/2013
Created
10/09/2019
Added
10/08/2019
Modified
10/08/2019

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Gem::Version::VERSION_PATTERN in lib/rubygems/version.rb in RubyGems before 1.8.23.1, 1.8.24 through 1.8.25, 2.0.x before 2.0.8, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0, as used in Ruby 1.9.0 through 2.0.0p247, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted gem version that triggers a large amount of backtracking in a regular expression.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-rubygems

References

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