CVE-2009-1904

The BigDecimal library in Ruby 1.8.6 before p369 and 1.8.7 before p173 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string argument that represents a large number, as demonstrated by an attempted conversion to the Float data type.
References
Link Resource
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35278
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/6/10/dos-vulnerability-in-ruby/ Patch
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/794 Exploit Patch
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.html
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2009/06/09/dos-vulnerability-in-bigdecimal/ Patch Vendor Advisory
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385436
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/189071
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1904
http://secunia.com/advisories/35399 Vendor Advisory
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689 Patch
http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/master Patch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1563
http://osvdb.org/55031
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.430805
http://secunia.com/advisories/35527
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022371
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200906-02.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/35699
http://secunia.com/advisories/35593
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:160
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-805-1
http://secunia.com/advisories/35937
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00731.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/37705
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51032
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780
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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2009-06-11 14:30

Updated : 2017-09-28 18:34


NVD link : CVE-2009-1904

Mitre link : CVE-2009-1904


JSON object : View

CWE
CWE-189

Numeric Errors

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Products Affected

ruby-lang

  • ruby