CVE-2009-1904

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductRuby
PublishedJun 11, 2009
First seenJun 11, 2009

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
ruby-lang ruby1.8.6, 1.8.7—

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