CVE-2008-3443

NameCVE-2008-3443
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1695-1
NVD severitymedium
Debian Bugs494401

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ruby1.8sourceetch1.8.5-4etch4DSA-1695-1
ruby1.8source(unstable)1.8.7.72-1low494401
ruby1.9sourceetch1.9.0+20060609-1etch4DSA-1695-1
ruby1.9source(unstable)1.9.0.2-9low

Notes

Upstream commits 18212 (for 1.8) and 18213 (for 1.9).
this specific problem does not exist in ruby1.9 but a very similar problem
that has been fixed in this version (308_regexp_segv.dpatch)
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