CVE-2009-1904

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-1904
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-06-11 21:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-189 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.6 All All All
Application Ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
DoS vulnerability in BigDecimal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ruby-lang.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Slackware update for ruby - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Ruby 1.9 - Bug #794: BigDecimal が Segmentation fault で落ることがある - Ruby Issue Tracking System af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 redmine.ruby-lang.org Exploit, Patch
[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: ruby-1.8.6.368-2.fc10 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Security Advisory SA35937 - Ubuntu update for Ruby - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
USN-805-1: Ruby vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
NZKoz's bigdecimal-segfault-fix at master - GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Gentoo Bug 273213 - <dev-lang/ruby-{1.8.6_p369, 1.8.7_p173}: DoS in BigDecimal (CVE-2009-1904) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
CVE-2009-1904 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.launchpad.net
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Ruby BigDecimal Library Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Red Hat update for ruby - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Ruby: Denial of Service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2009:160 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 slackware.com
Gentoo update for ruby - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
APPLE-SA-2010-03-29-1 Security Update 2010-002 / Mac OS X v10.6.3 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com
Ruby 1.8.6-pl369 released - Ruby - Ruby-Forum af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ruby-forum.com
Ruby BigDecimal Denial of Service Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Ruby BigDecimal Conversion Bug May Let Remote Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
Riding Rails: DoS Vulnerability in Ruby af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 weblog.rubyonrails.org Patch
Bug #385436 “DoS vulnerability in BigDecimal Ruby Library” : Bugs : “ruby1.8” package : Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.launchpad.net
About the security content of Security Update 2010-002 / Mac OS X v10.6.3 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com
Fedora update for ruby - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
osvdb.org/55031 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
#532689 - DoS vulnerability in BigDecimal Ruby Library - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org Patch
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/ruby18-base af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mail-index.netbsd.org
Google Groups af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 groups.google.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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