CVE-2008-3443

2008-08-1400:00:00

ubuntu.com

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access 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

0.149 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.7%

JSON

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.

Notes

Author	Note
jdstrand	this should be fixed in svn r20243 for ruby1.9

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu6.06noarchruby1.8< 1.8.4-1ubuntu1.6UNKNOWN
ubuntu7.04noarchruby1.8< 1.8.5-4ubuntu2.3UNKNOWN
ubuntu7.10noarchruby1.8< 1.8.6.36-1ubuntu3.3UNKNOWN
ubuntu8.04noarchruby1.8< 1.8.6.111-2ubuntu1.2UNKNOWN
ubuntu8.10noarchruby1.9< 1.9.0.2-7ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	6.06	noarch	ruby1.8	< 1.8.4-1ubuntu1.6	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	7.04	noarch	ruby1.8	< 1.8.5-4ubuntu2.3	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	7.10	noarch	ruby1.8	< 1.8.6.36-1ubuntu3.3	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	8.04	noarch	ruby1.8	< 1.8.6.111-2ubuntu1.2	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	8.10	noarch	ruby1.9	< 1.9.0.2-7ubuntu1.1	UNKNOWN