Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-1427-01 – Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to do system management tasks. RubyGems is the Ruby standard for publishing and managing third-party libraries. It was discovered that the rubygems API validated version strings using an unsafe regular expression. An application making use of this API to process a version string from an untrusted source could be vulnerable to a denial of service attack through CPU exhaustion…. Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-1427-01 – Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to do system management tasks. RubyGems is the Ruby standard for publishing and managing third-party libraries. It was discovered that the rubygems API validated version strings using an unsafe regular expression. An application making use of this API to process a version string from an untrusted source could be vulnerable to a denial of service attack through CPU exhaustion.

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