01 Record
CVE-2009-1904
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 12.77% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2009-06-11 21:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 05:27Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-06-03
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 9e737767205029f25544a2be3242bc835b344b5ac05fee26668bcc7259b90e89
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-1563http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1563
- secunia.com35937http://secunia.com/advisories/35937
- secunia.com35593http://secunia.com/advisories/35593
- www.ruby-lang.orghttp://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2009/06/09/dos-vulnerability-in-bigdecimal/
- redmine.ruby-lang.orghttp://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/794
- bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1904
- bugs.debian.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2009:1140http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html
- mail-index.netbsd.org[pkgsrc-changes] 20090610 CVS commit: pkgsrc/lang/ruby18-basehttp://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2009/06/10/msg024708.html
- groups.google.com[rubyonrails-security] 20090610 DoS Vulnerability in Ruby (CVE-2009-1904)http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source
- www.securitytracker.com1022371http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022371
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:9780https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2010-03-29-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html
- secunia.com35399http://secunia.com/advisories/35399
- github.comhttp://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/master
- weblog.rubyonrails.orghttp://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/6/10/dos-vulnerability-in-ruby/
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-805-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-805-1
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-13066https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-December/msg00731.html
- osvdb.org55031http://osvdb.org/55031
- www.securityfocus.com35278http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35278
- bugs.gentoo.orghttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213
- secunia.com37705http://secunia.com/advisories/37705
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
- secunia.com35699http://secunia.com/advisories/35699
- bugs.launchpad.nethttps://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385436
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200906-02http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200906-02.xml
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2009:160http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:160
- www.ruby-forum.comhttp://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/189071
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comruby-bigdecimal-dos(51032)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51032
- secunia.com35527http://secunia.com/advisories/35527
- slackware.comSSA:2009-170-02http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.430805