Ruby: Denial of service A flaw in the Ruby standard library might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service attack. ruby 2009-06-28 2009-06-28 273213 remote 1.8.6_p369 1.8.6_p369

Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language. The elaborate standard library includes the "BigDecimal" class.

Tadayoshi Funaba reported that BigDecimal in ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c does not properly handle string arguments containing overly long numbers.

A remote attacker could exploit this issue to remotely cause a Denial of Service attack.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Ruby users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ruby-1.8.6_p369" CVE-2009-1904 a3li a3li