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.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T09:37:26.963Z
Reserved: 2008-08-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2008-3443

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2008-08-14T23:41:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2008-3443
