ruby: Memory allocation failure in Ruby regex engine (remotely exploitable DoS)

The regular expression engine regex.c in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p286, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p71, and 1.9 through r18423 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop and crash via multiple long requests to a Ruby socket, related to memory allocation failure...

Resource Management Errors

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The regular expression engine regex.c in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p286, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p71, and 1.9 through r18423 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop an...