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DSA-1695 ruby1.8, ruby1.9 -- memory leak
The regular expression engine of Ruby, a scripting language, contains a memory leak which can be triggered remotely under certain circumstances, leading to a denial of service condition (CVE-2008-3443). In addition, this security update addresses a regression in the REXML XML parser of the ruby1.8 package; the regression was introduced in DSA-1651-1.
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