CVE-2014-6438

Description

The URI.decode_www_form_component method in Ruby before 1.9.2-p330 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (catastrophic regular expression backtracking, resource consumption, or application crash) via a crafted string.

References

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/08/19/ruby-1-9-2-p330-released/

https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/issues/817

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032874

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/13/6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3