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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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2008-08-14T23:00:00
Updated: 2018-10-03T20:57:01
Reserved: 2008-08-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2008-3443
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2008-08-14T23:41:00.000
Modified: 2018-10-03T21:55:15.413
Link: CVE-2008-3443
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