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CVE-2009-1904

Date: June 11, 2009

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.

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (35)

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html

Url: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/794

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35527

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/37705

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-1904

Url: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/6/10/dos-vulnerability-in-ruby/

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:160

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689

Url: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2009/06/09/dos-vulnerability-in-bigdecimal/

Url: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.html

Url: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.430805

Url: http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/master

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35278

Url: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385436

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2009-1904

Url: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/189071

Url: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1904

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35699

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1563

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35937

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022371

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35593

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200906-02.xml

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35399

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1904

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-805-1

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html

Url: http://osvdb.org/55031

Url: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51032

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00731.html

Url: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2009-1904

Severity Score

5.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Numeric Errors

CWE-189

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2009-1904

Date: June 11, 2009

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