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 products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1563 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35937 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35593 ↗
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2009/06/09/dos-vulnerability-in-bigdecimal/ ↗
- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/794 ↗
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1904 ↗
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html ↗
- http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.html ↗
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022371 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780 ↗
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35399 ↗
- http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/master ↗
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/6/10/dos-vulnerability-in-ruby/ ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-805-1 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00731.html ↗
- http://osvdb.org/55031 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35278 ↗
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37705 ↗
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35699 ↗
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385436 ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200906-02.xml ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:160 ↗
- http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/189071 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51032 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35527 ↗
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.430805 ↗