CVE-2009-1904 (GCVE-0-2009-1904)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-06-11 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:27
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2349 records in the last 180 days details
References
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Date Public
2009-06-09 00:00
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