DoS vulnerability in BigDecimal
A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was found on the BigDecimal standard library of Ruby. Conversion from BigDecimal objects into Float numbers had a problem which enables attackers to effectively cause segmentation faults.
ActiveRecord relies on this method, so most Rails applications are affected by this. Though this is not a Rails-specific issue.
Posted by Urabe Shyouhei on 09 Jun 2009
