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.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T05:27:54.831Z
Reserved: 2009-06-03T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2009-1904

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2009-06-11T21:30:00.217
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2009-1904
