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…

published August 14, 2008

CVSS
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EPSS
16%
Percentile
96.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.15678 · 96.8th percentile
Published
2008-08-14T23:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 AUG 23:00Z
    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…
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