CVE-2009-1904

Impact

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

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213
• http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/master
• http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
• http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.html
• http://osvdb.org/55031
• http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/794
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35399
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35527
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35593
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35699
• http://secunia.com/advisories/35937
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37705
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200906-02.xml
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.430805
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/6/10/dos-vulnerability-in-ruby/
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:160
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html
• http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/189071
• http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2009/06/09/dos-vulnerability-in-bigdecimal/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35278
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022371
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-805-1