Back to Database
Status published
Medium
CVE-2009-1904
The BigDecimal library in Ruby 1.8.6 before p369 and 1.8.7...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
THREAT MONITOR
Am I Vulnerable?
Launch our assessment wizard to check if your infrastructure is exposed to • CVE-2009-1904
Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1563
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35937
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35593
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2009/06/09/dos-vulnerability-in-bigdecimal/
- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/794
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1904
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html
- http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.html
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022371
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35399
- http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/master
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/6/10/dos-vulnerability-in-ruby/
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-805-1
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00731.html
- http://osvdb.org/55031
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35278
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37705
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35699
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385436
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200906-02.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:160
- http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/189071
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51032
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35527
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.430805
More from ruby-lang
View All →CVE-2025-27221
In the URI gem before 1.0.3 for Ruby, the URI...
Low
3.2
CVE-2025-27220
In the CGI gem before 0.4.2 for Ruby, a Regular...
Medium
4
CVE-2025-27219
In the CGI gem before 0.4.2 for Ruby, the CGI::Cookie.parse...
Medium
5.8
CVE-2022-28739
There is a buffer over-read in Ruby before 2.6.10, 2.7.x...
High
7.5
CVE-2022-28738
A double free was found in the Regexp compiler in...
Critical
9.8
Affected Vendor
ruby-lang
View all reports →Affected Software
ruby
Vulnerable Versions:
1.8.6, 1.8.7
Timeline
Official Publish:
June 11th, 2009
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.