cve-2009-1904
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2009-06-11 21:00
Modified
2024-08-07 05:27
Severity ?
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213
cve@mitre.orghttp://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/masterPatch
cve@mitre.orghttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://osvdb.org/55031
cve@mitre.orghttp://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/794Exploit, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/35399Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/35527
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/35593
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/35699
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/35937
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/37705
cve@mitre.orghttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200906-02.xml
cve@mitre.orghttp://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.430805
cve@mitre.orghttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
cve@mitre.orghttp://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/6/10/dos-vulnerability-in-ruby/Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:160
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/189071
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2009/06/09/dos-vulnerability-in-bigdecimal/Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35278
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022371
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-805-1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1563
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385436
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1904
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51032
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00731.html
Impacted products
n/an/a
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