CVE-2009-1904
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · CWE-189
5CVSS MEDIUM
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)8%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689Patch
- http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/masterPatch
- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/794Patch
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
- http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.html
- http://osvdb.org/55031