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CVE-2009-1904

CVE-2009-1904

EPSS 8.4%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/masterhttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=sourcehttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.htmlhttp://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.htmlhttp://osvdb.org/55031http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/794https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385436https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1904http://secunia.com/advisories/35399http://secunia.com/advisories/35527