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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-1904 Detail

Description

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213 CVE, MITRE
http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/master CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source CVE, MITRE
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.html CVE, MITRE
http://osvdb.org/55031 CVE, MITRE
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/794 CVE, MITRE Exploit  Patch 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35399 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/35527 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/35593 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/35699 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/35937 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/37705 CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200906-02.xml CVE, MITRE
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.430805 CVE, MITRE
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077 CVE, MITRE
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/6/10/dos-vulnerability-in-ruby/ CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:160 CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/189071 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2009/06/09/dos-vulnerability-in-bigdecimal/ CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35278 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022371 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-805-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1563 CVE, MITRE
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385436 CVE, MITRE
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1904 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51032 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780 CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00731.html CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-189 Numeric Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-1904
NVD Published Date:
06/11/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE