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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-1904: Ruby: Denial of service

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-1904: Ruby: Denial of service

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/11/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
05/28/2021

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-ruby

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