FKIE_CVE-2009-1904
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-06-11 21:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:08
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.
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