Ruby · Ruby · CVE-2014-6438
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions:
Ruby versions prior to 1.9.2-p330
Description:
The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted string, potentially leading to catastrophic regular expression backtracking, resource consumption, or application crash. This is due to a problem in the URI.decode www form component method.
Recommendations:
For versions prior to 1.9.2-p330, update to version 1.9.2-p330 or later to resolve the issue.