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rubygem-rails -- evaluation of ruby code

Affected packages
1.1.0	<=	rubygem-rails	<	1.1.3
1.1.4	<=	rubygem-rails	<	1.1.6

Details

VuXML ID	90064567-28b1-11db-844d-000c6ec775d9
Discovery	2006-08-09
Entry	2006-08-10

The Ruby on Rails blog reports:

With Rails 1.1.0 through 1.1.5 (minus the short-lived 1.1.3), you can trigger the evaluation of Ruby code through the URL because of a bug in the routing code of Rails. This means that you can essentially take down a Rails process by starting something like /script/profiler, as the code will run for a long time and that process will be hung while it happens. Other URLs can even cause data loss.

[source]

References

URL	http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/10/rails-1-1-6-backports-and-full-disclosure