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Ruby BigDecimal Library Denial of Service Vulnerability (Linux)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
14 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with Ruby and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to an error within the BigDecimal standard library when trying to convert BigDecimal objects into floating point numbers which leads to segmentation fault.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Ruby 1.8.6 to 1.8.6-p368 and 1.8.7 to 1.8.7-p172 on Linux.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to 1.8.6-p369 or 1.8.7-p174.