CVE-2013-4287

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CVE-2013-4287

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Upstream information

CVE-2013-4287 at MITRE

Description

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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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 837457 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SU-2013:1659-1, published Tue Nov 12 11:04:12 MST 2013
openSUSE-SU-2013:1611-1

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3	ruby19 >= 1.9.3.p392-0.13.1 ruby19-devel >= 1.9.3.p392-0.13.1 ruby19-devel-extra >= 1.9.3.p392-0.13.1	Patchnames: slestso13-ruby19

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Sep 11 11:15:05 2013
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:06:29 2023