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ruby: denial of service

Package(s):ruby CVE #(s):CVE-2011-4815
Created:January 11, 2012 Updated:February 28, 2012
Description: Ruby, like many scripting languages, enables the predictable creation of hash collisions. This "feature" can be exploited for a denial of service attack.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2011-17542 2012-01-10
Fedora FEDORA-2011-17551 2012-01-10
Red Hat RHSA-2012:0069-01 2012-01-30
Red Hat RHSA-2012:0070-01 2012-01-30
CentOS CESA-2012:0069 2012-01-30
CentOS CESA-2012:0070 2012-01-30
CentOS CESA-2012:0070 2012-01-30
Oracle ELSA-2012-0069 2012-01-31
Oracle ELSA-2012-0070 2012-01-31
Oracle ELSA-2012-0070 2012-01-31
Scientific Linux SL-ruby-20120130 2012-01-30
Scientific Linux SL-ruby-20120131 2012-01-31
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0228-1 2012-02-09
Ubuntu USN-1377-1 2012-02-27
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:024 2012-02-28
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