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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-08-14T23:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:37:26.963Z

Reserved: 2008-08-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-3443

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-08-14T23:41:00.000

Modified: 2018-10-03T21:55:15.413

Link: CVE-2008-3443

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-08-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-3443 - Bugzilla