CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
95.8%
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.
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
ruby-lang | ruby | 1.6.8 | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.0 | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.1 | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.1 | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.1:-9:*:*:*:*:*:* |
ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.2 | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.2 | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.2:preview2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.2 | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.2:preview3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.2 | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.2:preview4:*:*:*:*:*:* |
ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.3 | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.3 | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.3:preview1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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