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.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1904 cve-icon cve-icon
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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-1904 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1904 cve-icon
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History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-06-11T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:27:54.831Z

Reserved: 2009-06-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-1904

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-06-11T21:30:00.217

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:03:40.280

Link: CVE-2009-1904

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2009-06-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-1904 - Bugzilla