CVE-2009-1904
Published Jun 11, 2009
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 10
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-189
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "876B2575-4F81-4A70-9A88-9BEE44649626"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "2D86FC99-3521-4E22-8FD3-65CEB05A6342"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]