The regular expression engine (regex.c) in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p286, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p71, and 1.9 through r18423 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and crash) via multiple long requests to a Ruby socket, related to memory allocation failure, and as demonstrated against Webrick.
References
Configurations
Configuration 1 (hide)
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Information
Published : 2008-08-14 16:41
Updated : 2018-10-03 14:55
NVD link : CVE-2008-3443
Mitre link : CVE-2008-3443
JSON object : View
CWE
CWE-399
Resource Management Errors
Products Affected
ruby-lang
- ruby