CVE-2013-1800 Information

Description

The crack gem 0.3.1 and earlier for Ruby does not properly restrict casts of string values which might allow remote attackers to conduct object-injection attacks and execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) by leveraging Action Pack support for (1) YAML type conversion or (2) Symbol type conversion a similar vulnerability to CVE-2013-0156.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00003.html http://secunia.com/advisories/52897 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804721 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=917236 https://github.com/jnunemaker/crack/commit/e3da1212a1f84a898ee3601336d1dbbf118fb5f6 https://support.cloud.engineyard.com/entries/22915701-january-14-2013-security-vulnerabilities-httparty-extlib-crack-nori-update-these-gems-immediately