MGASA-2013-0297

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    MGASA-2013-0297

    Published: 9 Oct 2013Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated ruby-RubyGems package fixes security vulnerabilies

    Details: Updated ruby-RubyGems package fixes security vulnerability: RubyGems validates versions with a regular expression that is vulnerable to denial of service due to a backtracking regular expression. For specially crafted RubyGems versions attackers can cause denial of service through CPU consumption (CVE-2013-4287, CVE-2013-4363).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0297.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11276, http://blog.rubygems.org/2013/09/09/CVE-2013-4287.html, http://blog.rubygems.org/2013/09/24/CVE-2013-4363.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-September/115886.html, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2013-4287

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ruby-RubyGems

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/ruby-RubyGems?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.8.27-1.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High