gsd-2009-1904
Vulnerability from gsd
Modified
2023-12-13 01:19
Details
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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CVE-2009-1904


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      "lastModifiedDate": "2017-09-29T01:34Z",
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