A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.
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Posted by James Edward Gray II on 09 Sep 2008
There is a DoS vulnerability in the REXML library included in the Ruby Standard Library. A so-called "XML entity explosion" attack technique can be used for remotely bringing down (disabling) any application which parses user-provided XML using REXML.
Most Rails applications will be vulnerable because Rails parses user-provided XML using REXML by default.
Posted by Shugo Maeda on 23 Aug 2008