Code injection

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...

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...

CVE-2009-1904

CVE-2009-1904 concerns the Ruby BigDecimal conversion to Float: Ruby 1.8.6 before p369 and 1.8.7 before p173 can crash an application (DoS) when given a very large numeric string. Connected advisories (e.g., MiracleLinux AXSA-2009-78:01) confirm a patch was released (e.g., “New patchlevel fixing ...

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...

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...

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...

CVE-2009-1904: Undefined Security Weakness

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...

CVE-2009-1904 ruby: DoS vulnerability in BigDecimal

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...

ruby -- BigDecimal denial of service vulnerability

The official ruby site reports: A denial of service DoS vulnerability was found on the BigDecimal standard library of Ruby. Conversion from BigDecimal objects into Float numbers had a problem which enables attackers to effectively cause segmentation faults. An attacker can cause a denial of servi...