CVE-2008-3443
Ruby Regular Expression Engine Denial of Service
Description
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.
INFO
Published Date :
Aug. 14, 2008, 11:41 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 12:49 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
10.0
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CVE-2008-3443 vulnerability over time.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31430 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32165 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32219 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32371 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32372 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/33185 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/33398 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35074 Added Reference http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4158 Added Reference http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549 Added Reference http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-424.htm Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1695 Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0895.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0897.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30682 Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021075 Added Reference http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44688 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9570 Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/651-1/ Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/691-1/ Added Reference https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6239 Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00259.html Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00299.html -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 03, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-691-1 [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-651-1 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/691-1/ [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/651-1/ [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9570 [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6239 [Exploit] Added Reference https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6239 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9570 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 08, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44688 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44688 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Aug. 15, 2008
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2008-3443 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2008-3443
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
30.96 }} 2.41%
score
0.96348
percentile