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.

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

15.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 97th percentile

Published

2008-08-14

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6239

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2008-3442
• CVE-2008-3445
• CVE-2008-3441
• CVE-2008-3446
• CVE-2008-3440
• CVE-2008-3447