A vulnerability has been identified in Ruby, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an integer overflow error in the "rb_ary_fill()" function when handling overly large arguments, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application, creating a denial of service condition.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Vincenzo (snagg) Iozzo (Secure Network).
ChangeLog
2008-07-02 : Initial release
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