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CVE-2014-9490: Denial of Service

January 20, 2015 (updated August 13, 2018)

Sentry raven-ruby contains a flaw in the lib/raven/okjson.rb script that is triggered when large numeric values are stored as an exponent or in scientific notation. With a specially crafted request, an attacker can cause the software to consume excessive resources resulting in a denial of service.

References

  • osvdb.org/show/osvdb/115654

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.12.2

Fixed versions

  • 0.12.2

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.12.2 or above.

Impact 5 MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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Weakness

  • CWE-399

Source file

gem/sentry-raven/CVE-2014-9490.yml

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