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FreeBSD : ruby -- BigDecimal denial of service vulnerability (62e0fbe5-5798-11de-bb78-001cc0377035)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 39375

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The official ruby site reports :

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was found on the BigDecimal standard library of Ruby. Conversion from BigDecimal objects into Float numbers had a problem which enables attackers to effectively cause segmentation faults.

An attacker can cause a denial of service by causing BigDecimal to parse an insanely large number, such as :

BigDecimal('9E69999999').to_s('F')

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d9c7b7be

http://www.nessus.org/u?87876221

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 39375

File Name: freebsd_pkg_62e0fbe5579811debb78001cc0377035.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 6/15/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ruby, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ruby%2boniguruma, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ruby%2bpthreads, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ruby%2bpthreads%2boniguruma, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/13/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/9/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1904

BID: 35278

CWE: 189