DSA-1695 ruby1.8, ruby1.9 – memory leak
The regular expression engine of Ruby, a scripting language, contains a
memory leak which can be triggered remotely under certain circumstances,
leading to a denial of service condition (
CVE-2008-3443).
Read the full story: DSA-1695 ruby1.8, ruby1.9 – memory leak: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1695
Tags: advisory, Debian, DSA, Linux, Security
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