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CVE-2014-9490 (sentry-raven): sentry-raven Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that can result in a denial of service

ADVISORIES

GEM

sentry-raven

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 5.0 (Medium)

PATCHED VERSIONS

  • >= 0.12.2

DESCRIPTION

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.