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Gentoo: 2004-11-23 Normal: Ruby CGI Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey November 16, 2004
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The Gentoo GLSA 200507-12 addresses a vulnerability in the PHP CGI implementation, which may cause excessive resource consumption, potentially resulting in server instability.
The CGI module in Ruby can be sent into an infinite loop, resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-23 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Ruby: Denial of Service issue Date: November 16, 2004 Bugs: #69985 ID: 200411-23

Synopsis ======= The CGI module in Ruby can be sent into an infinite loop, resulting in a Denial of Service condition.
Background ========= Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. Ruby's CGI module can be used to build web applications.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-lang/ruby < 1.8.2_pre3 *>= 1.6.8-r12 >= 1.8.2_pre3
========== Ruby's developers found and fi...

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