CVE-2008-3443
Medium
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.
SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
Product
Ruby
PublishedAug 14, 2008
First seenAug 14, 2008
How to fix
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| ruby-lang ruby | 1.6.8, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.9.0 | — |
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