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CVE-2008-3443

N/A
Published: August 14, 2008 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:55 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorRuby

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 16%

Description

The regular expression engine (regex.c) in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p286, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p71, and 1.9 through r18423 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and crash) via multiple long requests to a Ruby socket, related to memory allocation failure, and as demonstrated against Webrick.

References (26)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/31430
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/32165
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/32219
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/32371
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/32372
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/33185
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/33398

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-399

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