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GHSA-9j7m-rjqx-48vh

RubyGems Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability

Quick fix

GHSA-9j7m-rjqx-48vh — rubygems-update: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

bundle update rubygems-update

Details

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Gem::Version::VERSION_PATTERN in `lib/rubygems/version.rb` in RubyGems before 1.8.23.1, 1.8.24 through 1.8.25, 2.0.x before 2.0.8, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0, as used in Ruby 1.9.0 through 2.0.0p247, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted gem version that triggers a large amount of backtracking in a regular expression.

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Affected packages

RubyGems/rubygems-update
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.8.23.1
Fixbundle update rubygems-update
RubyGems/rubygems-update
Introduced in: 1.8.24Fixed in: 1.8.26
Fixbundle update rubygems-update
RubyGems/rubygems-update
Introduced in: 2.0.0Fixed in: 2.0.8
Fixbundle update rubygems-update
RubyGems/rubygems-update
Introduced in: 2.1.0.rc.1Fixed in: 2.1.0
Fixbundle update rubygems-update

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