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CVE-2009-1904

The BigDecimal library in Ruby 1.8.6 before p369 and 1.8.7 before p173 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a den

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.06786
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  • EPSS percentile: top 9% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • Public exploit or PoC is available
Sigma rules3 YARA rules0
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Affected Products & Versions

1
ruby-lang rubyall versions
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Public Exploits & PoCs

1
pocredmine.ruby-lang.org · show/794redmine.ruby-lang.org
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Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.
productmediumRuby on Rails Framework Exceptions
productmediumPotential Ruby Reverse Shell
productmediumRuby Inline Command Execution
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Scoring & Timeline

5
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD11 Jun 2009 · 09:30 PM
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Vendor Advisories

3
usnUSN-900-1
usnUSN-805-1
rhsaRHSA-2009:1140Moderate
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689Patch
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213
http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/masterPatch
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
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