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CVE-2009-1904

medium · 5

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.

5
CVSS
12.8%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2009-06-11
Published

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

CWE-189

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
ruby-langruby1.8.6
ruby-langruby1.8.7

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References

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