CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-1904
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-06-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• ruby-lang ruby 1.8.6
• ruby-lang ruby 1.8.7
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689 Patch
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/master Patch
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source groups.google.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.html mail-index.netbsd.org
- http://osvdb.org/55031 osvdb.org
- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/794 Exploit, Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35399 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35527 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35593 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35699 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35937 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37705 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200906-02.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.430805 slackware.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 support.apple.com
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/6/10/dos-vulnerability-in-ruby/ Patch
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:160 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/189071 www.ruby-forum.com
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2009/06/09/dos-vulnerability-in-bigdecimal/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35278 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022371 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-805-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1563 www.vupen.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385436 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1904 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51032 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00731.html www.redhat.com
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689 Patch
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213 bugs.gentoo.org
- http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/master Patch
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source groups.google.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.html mail-index.netbsd.org
- http://osvdb.org/55031 osvdb.org
- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/794 Exploit, Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35399 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35527 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35593 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35699 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35937 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37705 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200906-02.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.430805 slackware.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 support.apple.com
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/6/10/dos-vulnerability-in-ruby/ Patch
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:160 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/189071 www.ruby-forum.com
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2009/06/09/dos-vulnerability-in-bigdecimal/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35278 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022371 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-805-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1563 www.vupen.com
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385436 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1904 bugs.launchpad.net
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51032 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00731.html www.redhat.com