Ruby: Denial of service — GLSA 200605-11

Ruby WEBrick and XMLRPC servers are vulnerable to Denial of Service.

Affected packages

Background

Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It comes bundled with HTTP ("WEBrick") and XMLRPC server objects.

Description

Ruby uses blocking sockets for WEBrick and XMLRPC servers.

Impact

An attacker could send large amounts of data to an affected server to block the socket and thus deny other connections to the server.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/ruby-1.8.4-r1"

References

• CVE-2006-1931
• Ruby release announcement

Release date
May 10, 2006

Latest revision
May 10, 2006: 01

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 130657