Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900570
Category:	Denial of Service
Title:	Ruby BigDecimal Library Denial of Service Vulnerability (Linux)
Summary:	The host is installed with Ruby and is prone to denial of; service vulnerability.
Description:	Summary: The host is installed with Ruby and is prone to denial of service vulnerability. Vulnerability 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. Vulnerability Impact: Attackers can exploit this issue to crash an application using this library. Affected Software/OS: Ruby 1.8.6 to 1.8.6-p368 and 1.8.7 to 1.8.7-p172 on Linux. Solution: Upgrade to 1.8.6-p369 or 1.8.7-p174. CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 35278 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-1904 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35278 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00731.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200906-02.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:160 http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.html http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source http://osvdb.org/55031 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022371 http://secunia.com/advisories/35399 http://secunia.com/advisories/35527 http://secunia.com/advisories/35593 http://secunia.com/advisories/35699 http://secunia.com/advisories/35937 http://secunia.com/advisories/37705 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.430805 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-805-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1563 XForce ISS Database: ruby-bigdecimal-dos(51032) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51032
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