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CVE-2013-4287

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2013-11-24	ruby-gems -- Algorithmic Complexity Vulnerability

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CVE-2013-4287 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2013-4287
Phase	Assigned(20130612)

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Gem::Version::VERSION_PATTERN in lib/rubygems/version.rb in RubyGems before 1.8.23.1, 1.8.24 through 1.8.25, 2.0.x before 2.0.8, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0, 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.

References

Source	Reference
MLIST	[oss-security] 20130909 CVE-2013-4287 Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in RubyGems 2.0.7 and older
CONFIRM	http://blog.rubygems.org/2013/09/09/CVE-2013-4287.html
REDHAT	RHSA-2013:1427
REDHAT	RHSA-2013:1441
REDHAT	RHSA-2013:1523
REDHAT	RHSA-2013:1852
REDHAT	RHSA-2014:0207
SECUNIA	55381