CVE-2009-1904 (GCVE-0-2009-1904)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-06-11 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:27
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
31 references
Date Public
2009-06-09 00:00
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"url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1563"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385436"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1904"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51032"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780"
},
{
"source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
"url": "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00731.html"
}
],
"sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org",
"vulnStatus": "Modified",
"weaknesses": [
{
"description": [
{
"lang": "en",
"value": "CWE-189"
}
],
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"type": "Primary"
}
]
}
},
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"aggregate_severity": "Moderate",
"current_release_date": "2025-11-21T13:11:37+00:00",
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"id": "CVE-2009-1904",
"initial_release_date": "2009-06-10T00:00:00+00:00",
"product_status:fixed": "375",
"source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
"status": "final",
"title": "ruby: DoS vulnerability in BigDecimal",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2009/cve-2009-1904.json",
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"id": "CVE-2009-1904",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T06:03:37Z",
"product_status:recommended": "40",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2009-1904",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2009-1904.json",
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}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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