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 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.
- EPSS
- 13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-189
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- ruby-lang:ruby
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213
- http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/master
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html