Posted by zzak and hone on 19 Aug 2014
We have released 1.9.2-p330, the final release of the 1.9.2 series.
Soon after announcing the End of Life for 1.9.2 (and 1.8.7), a critical security regression was found in 1.9.2. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2014-6438.
This bug occurs when parsing a long string is using the URI method
decode_www_form_component. This can be reproduced by running the following
on vulnerable Rubies:
ruby -v -ruri -e'URI.decode_www_form_component "A string that causes catastrophic backtracking as it gets longer %"'Since it was found and patched just before the release of 1.9.3, versions of Ruby 1.9.3-p0 and later are not affected; however versions of Ruby 1.9.2 older than 1.9.2-p330 are affected.
You can read the original report on the bug tracker: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5149#note-4
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We encourage you to upgrade to a stable and maintained version of Ruby.