Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Gem::Version::ANCHORED_VERSION_PATTERN in lib/rubygems/version.rb in RubyGems before 1.8.23.2, 1.8.24 through 1.8.26, 2.0.x before 2.0.10, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5, as used in Ruby 1.9.0 through 2.0.0p247, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted gem version that triggers a large amount of backtracking in a regular expression. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-4287.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | ruby19 | 2014-02-26 14:27 | ALAS-2014-290 |
Amazon Linux 1 | rubygems | 2013-10-16 20:52 | ALAS-2013-231 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 2.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |