| Name | CVE-2008-3443 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-1695-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 494401 |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ruby1.8 | source | etch | 1.8.5-4etch4 | DSA-1695-1 | ||
| ruby1.8 | source | (unstable) | 1.8.7.72-1 | low | 494401 | |
| ruby1.9 | source | etch | 1.9.0+20060609-1etch4 | DSA-1695-1 | ||
| ruby1.9 | source | (unstable) | 1.9.0.2-9 | low |
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)