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Gentoo: GLSA-202103-15 Critical Risk of Ruby Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2006
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Ruby WEBrick and XMLRPC servers on Gentoo face potential Denial of Service vulnerabilities. Users are advised to update their systems promptly to maintain security.
Ruby WEBrick and XMLRPC servers are vulnerable to Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200605-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Ruby: Denial of Service Date: May 10, 2006 Bugs: #130657 ID: 200605-11

Synopsis ======= Ruby WEBrick and XMLRPC servers are vulnerable to Denial of Service.
Background ========= Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It comes bundled with HTTP ("WEBrick") and XMLRPC server objects.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-lang/ruby < 1.8.4-r1 >= 1.8.4-r1
========== Ruby uses blocking sockets for WEBrick and XMLRPC servers.
Impact ===== An attacker could send large amounts of data to an affected ser...

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