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ruby: infinite loop

Package(s):ruby CVE #(s):CAN-2004-0983
Created:November 8, 2004 Updated:May 15, 2005
Description: The upstream developers of Ruby have corrected a problem in the CGI module for this language. Specially crafted requests could cause an infinite loop and thus cause the program to eat up cpu cycles.
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:152768 2005-05-12
Red Hat RHSA-2004:635-01 2004-12-13
Gentoo 200411-23 2004-11-16
Fedora FEDORA-2004-403 2004-11-11
Fedora FEDORA-2004-402 2004-11-11
Ubuntu USN-20-1 2004-11-08
Mandrake MDKSA-2004:128 2004-11-08
Debian DSA-586-1 2004-11-08
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