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ruby: denial of service

Package(s):ruby CVE #(s):CVE-2009-1904
Created:June 22, 2009 Updated:February 16, 2010
Description: From the CVE entry: 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.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2010-0533 2010-01-14
Fedora FEDORA-2009-13066 2009-12-11
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:325 2009-12-07
Ubuntu USN-900-1 2010-02-16
Debian DSA-1860-1 2009-08-12
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:177 2009-07-29
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:160 2009-07-27
Ubuntu USN-805-1 2009-07-20
CentOS CESA-2009:1140 2009-07-02
Red Hat RHSA-2009:1140-02 2009-07-02
Gentoo 200906-02 2009-06-28
Slackware SSA:2009-170-02 2009-06-22
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