CVE 2008-3443
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.
Related bugs and status
CVE-2008-3443 (Candidate) is related to these bugs:
Bug #246818: [CVE-2008-2376] Integer overflow in the rb_ary_fill function in array.c in Ruby
| Summary | In | Importance | Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 246818 | [CVE-2008-2376] Integer overflow in the rb_ary_fill function in array.c in Ruby | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 246818 | [CVE-2008-2376] Integer overflow in the rb_ary_fill function in array.c in Ruby | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu Dapper) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 246818 | [CVE-2008-2376] Integer overflow in the rb_ary_fill function in array.c in Ruby | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu Feisty) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 246818 | [CVE-2008-2376] Integer overflow in the rb_ary_fill function in array.c in Ruby | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu Gutsy) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 246818 | [CVE-2008-2376] Integer overflow in the rb_ary_fill function in array.c in Ruby | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu Hardy) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
Bug #257122: Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby
| Summary | In | Importance | Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 257122 | Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 257122 | Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby | ruby1.9 (Ubuntu) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 257122 | Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu Feisty) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 257122 | Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby | ruby1.9 (Ubuntu Feisty) | Undecided | Won't Fix | ||
| 257122 | Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu Gutsy) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 257122 | Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby | ruby1.9 (Ubuntu Gutsy) | Undecided | Won't Fix | ||
| 257122 | Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu Intrepid) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 257122 | Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby | ruby1.9 (Ubuntu Intrepid) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 257122 | Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu Dapper) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 257122 | Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby | ruby1.9 (Ubuntu Dapper) | Undecided | Won't Fix | ||
| 257122 | Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu Hardy) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 257122 | Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby | ruby1.9 (Ubuntu Hardy) | Undecided | Won't Fix | ||
Bug #261459: DOS Vulnerability in Ruby REXML
| Summary | In | Importance | Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 261459 | DOS Vulnerability in Ruby REXML | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 261459 | DOS Vulnerability in Ruby REXML | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu Dapper) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 261459 | DOS Vulnerability in Ruby REXML | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu Gutsy) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
| 261459 | DOS Vulnerability in Ruby REXML | ruby1.8 (Ubuntu Hardy) | Undecided | Fix Released | ||
See the 
CVE page on Mitre.org
for more details.
