CVE-2009-1904

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-189

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a

References

Timeline

Published
Jun 11, 2009
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2009-1904: Medium severity, CVSS 5.0 | Vulnix