Photon OS 1.0: Libxml2 / Ncurses / Openldap / Ruby PHSA-2017-0024 (deprecated)

An update of ncurses,openldap,libxml2,ruby packages for PhotonOS has been released. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. @DEPRECATED@ Disabled on 2/7/2019 The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2017-0024. The text itself is copyright C...

CVE-2017-6181

An unbounded recursion flaw was found in the way Ruby handled regular expressions. A specially crafted regular expression could be used by an attacker to crash an Ruby application processing such crafted input...

CVE-2017-6181

The parsecharclass function in regparse.c in the Onigmo aka Oniguruma-mod regular expression library, as used in Ruby 2.4.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service deep recursion and application crash via a crafted regular expression...

CVE-2017-6181

The parsecharclass function in regparse.c in the Onigmo aka Oniguruma-mod regular expression library, as used in Ruby 2.4.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service deep recursion and application crash via a crafted regular expression...

CVE-2017-6181

The CVE-2017-6181 entry corresponds to an unbounded recursion flaw in the Onigmo (Oniguruma-mod) regular expression library’s parse_char_class function (regparse.c) used by Ruby 2.4.0. A crafted regular expression can cause a remote attacker to trigger deep recursion and a potential application c...