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Ruby BigDecimal Library Denial of Service Vulnerability (Linux)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Denial of Service

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

The host is installed with Ruby and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

The flaw is due to an error within the BigDecimal standard library when trying to convert BigDecimal objects into floating point numbers which leads to segmentation fault.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Ruby 1.8.6 to 1.8.6-p368 and 1.8.7 to 1.8.7-p172 on Linux.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to 1.8.6-p369 or 1.8.7-p174.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)