CVE-2013-4287

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.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

References

• http://blog.rubygems.org/2013/09/09/CVE-2013-4287.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1427.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1441.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1523.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1852.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0207.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55381
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/10/1
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4287
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4287
• https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/938a7e31ac73655845ab9045629ff3f580a125da
• https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/b697536f2455e8c8853cf5cf8a1017a36031ed67
• https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/b9baec03145aed684d1cd3c87dcac3cc06becd9b
• https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/ed733bc379d75620f5be4213f89d1d7b38be3191
• https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/03a074e8838683f45611b119fd8f363aa44fe2fd/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rubygems-update/CVE-2013-4287.yml
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160806152839/https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4287
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4287

CWEs

CWE-310