Upstream information

CVE-2014-6438 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 937962 [RESOLVED / INVALID]

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Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 ruby Not affected
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL ruby Not affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP2 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3 ruby Not affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 ruby Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 ruby Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 ruby Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 ruby Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 ruby Not affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9 ruby Not affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Jul 13 22:40:23 2015
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 13 19:04:52 2023