CVE-2008-3443
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...
- Published
- Aug 14, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Aug 13, 2008
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PModerate · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 96.8%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
1laurent gaffié · multiple · Aug 13, 2008
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