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CVE-2008-3443

Published: Aug 14, 2008

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

31430
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
USN-651-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
33185
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
DSA-1695
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
30682
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
FEDORA-2008-8736
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA
ruby-regex-dos(44688)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
4158
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SREASON
35074
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
1021075
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
APPLE-SA-2009-05-12
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_APPLE
RHSA-2008:0895
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
RHSA-2008:0897
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
33398
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
32219
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
6239
exploit
x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
TA09-133A
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_CERT
ADV-2009-1297
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
USN-691-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9570
vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_OVAL
32371
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
32165
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
32372
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
FEDORA-2008-8738
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FEDORA

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