Unscored severity · published Jun 11, 2009
CVE-2009-1904
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…
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CVSS
12.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)12.8% · higher than 96% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RU
Ruby · Ruby-lang
1.8.6; 1.8.7 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1904
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1904
Patch
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689
bugs.gentoo.org
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213
Patch
http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/master
groups.google.com
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source
lists.apple.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
mail-index.netbsd.org
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.html
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