CVE-2008-3443
Fixed in a distro release EPSS 16%
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.
Products: ruby-lang ruby
Distro releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 4.0 | ruby1.8 | 1.8.5-4etch4 |
| Debian 4.0 | ruby1.9 | 1.9.0+20060609-1etch4 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | irb | 0:1.6.4-7.el2 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | ruby | 0:1.6.4-7.el2 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | ruby-devel | 0:1.6.4-7.el2 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | ruby-docs | 0:1.6.4-7.el2 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | ruby-libs | 0:1.6.4-7.el2 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | ruby-tcltk | 0:1.6.4-7.el2 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | irb | 0:1.6.8-13.el3 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | ruby | 0:1.6.8-13.el3 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | ruby-debuginfo | 0:1.6.8-13.el3 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | ruby-devel | 0:1.6.8-13.el3 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | ruby-docs | 0:1.6.8-13.el3 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | ruby-libs | 0:1.6.8-13.el3 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | ruby-mode | 0:1.6.8-13.el3 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | ruby-tcltk | 0:1.6.8-13.el3 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | irb | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby-debuginfo | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby-devel | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby-docs | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby-libs | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby-mode | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | ruby-tcltk | 0:1.8.1-7.el4_7.1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-debuginfo | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-devel | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-docs | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-irb | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-libs | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-mode | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-rdoc | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-ri | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | ruby-tcltk | 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.5 |