Ruby Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2014-6438 - Vulnerability Database

Ruby Resource Management Errors Vulnerability - CVE-2014-6438

High
Reference: CVE-2014-6438
Title: Ruby Resource Management Errors Vulnerability
Overview:

The URI.decode_www_form_component method in Ruby before 1.9.2-p330 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (catastrophic regular expression backtracking resource consumption or application crash) via a crafted string.