Resource Management Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby2.3  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1704-RUBY23-630204
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed6 Sept 2017

Introduced: 6 Sep 2017

CVE-2014-6438  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby2.3 package and not the ruby2.3 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.