Package: rubygems
Version: 1.8.24-1
Severity: important
Tags: security, fixed-upstream

RubyGems validates versions with a regular expression that is vulnerable to
denial of service due to backtracking.  For specially crafted RubyGems
versions attackers can cause denial of service through CPU consumption.

More information: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/10/1

Please update affected versions accordingly and use CVE in the changelog.

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Henri Salo

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