[ MDVSA-2009:160 ] ruby

[dude67]

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Package : ruby
Date : July 27, 2009
Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0
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Problem Description:

The BigDecimal library in Ruby 1.8.6 before p369 and 1.8.7 before
p173 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service
(application crash) via a string argument that represents a large
number, as demonstrated by an attempted conversion to the Float
data type.

This update corrects the problem.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-1904
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