November 10th, 2018, By Catalin Cimpanu
The Ruby programming language is impacted by a similar "deserialization issue" that has affected and wreaked havoc in the Java ecosystem in 2016; an issue that later also proved to be a problem for .NET and PHP applications as well.
The issue at the heart of this problem is how Ruby handles the process of serialization --and its counterpart, deserialization.
Serialization is the process of converting a data object into a binary format so it can be sent over a network, stored inside a database, or saved on disk. As you might imagine, deserialization is the opposite process, of reversing a binary blob back into its data object structure that can then be fed back into the programming language for further processing at a later date.
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