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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-3443

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2008-3443

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/14/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The regular expression engine (regex.c) in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p286, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p71, and 1.9 through r18423 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and crash) via multiple long requests to a Ruby socket, related to memory allocation failure, and as demonstrated against Webrick.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-ruby
  • suse-upgrade-ruby-devel
  • suse-upgrade-ruby-doc-html
  • suse-upgrade-ruby-doc-ri
  • suse-upgrade-ruby-examples
  • suse-upgrade-ruby-test-suite
  • suse-upgrade-ruby-tk

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