CVEs-PoC/2009/CVE-2009-1904.md

CVE-2009-1904

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/CVEDB/PoC-List
• https://github.com/CVEDB/awesome-cve-repo
• https://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix