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GSD-2014-6438

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:22
Details
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.
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