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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:45:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE id requests: ruby
Note the following DoS in the regular expression engine, which smells like
a NULL pointer dereference. This appears to have been fixed in the latest
release. A *likely* (but not provable) changelog entry for the fix is:
"regex.c (DOUBLE_STACK, re_compile_fastmap0, re_adjust_startpos),
(re_search, re_match_exec): check if failed to allocate memory."
- Steve
======================================================
Name: CVE-2008-3443
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3443
Reference: MILW0RM:6239
Reference: URL:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6239
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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