Description

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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2008-3443

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2008-3443

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities