CVE-2009-1904
N/A
Published: June 11, 2009 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:08 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorRuby
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 13%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Ruby· Ruby Langrubygems
95%Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (31)
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/masterMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=sourceVendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
Source: [email protected]
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/794Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-189
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