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CVE-2008-3443 Detail

Description

The regular expression engine (regex.c) in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p286, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p71, and 1.9 through r18423 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and crash) via multiple long requests to a Ruby socket, related to memory allocation failure, and as demonstrated against Webrick.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/31430 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32165 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32219 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32371 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32372 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/33185 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/33398 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/35074 CVE, MITRE
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4158 CVE, MITRE
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549 CVE, MITRE
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-424.htm CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1695 CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0895.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0897.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30682 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021075 CVE, MITRE
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html CVE, MITRE US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44688 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9570 CVE, MITRE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/651-1/ CVE, MITRE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/691-1/ CVE, MITRE
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6239 CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00259.html CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00299.html CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-3443
NVD Published Date:
08/14/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE