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 that represents a large number, as demonstrated by an attempted conversion to the Float data type.

🔗 References (62)

• cve@mitrehttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689
• cve@mitrehttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213
• cve@mitrehttp://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/master
• cve@mitrehttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source
• cve@mitrehttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
• cve@mitrehttp://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.html
• cve@mitrehttp://osvdb.org/55031
• cve@mitrehttp://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/794
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/35399
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/35527
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/35593
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/35699
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/35937
• cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/37705
• cve@mitrehttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200906-02.xml