CVE-2008-3443

Publication date 14 August 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ruby1.8 11.10 oneiric
Not affected
11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic
Not affected
9.04 jaunty
Not affected
8.10 intrepid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 1.8.6.111-2ubuntu1.2
7.10 gutsy
Fixed 1.8.6.36-1ubuntu3.3
7.04 feisty
Fixed 1.8.5-4ubuntu2.3
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 1.8.4-1ubuntu1.6
ruby1.9 11.10 oneiric Not in release
11.04 natty Not in release
10.10 maverick Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic
Not affected
9.04 jaunty
Not affected
8.10 intrepid
Fixed 1.9.0.2-7ubuntu1.1
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
7.10 gutsy Ignored end of life, was needed
7.04 feisty Ignored end of life, was needed
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life

Notes

jdstrand

this should be fixed in svn r20243 for ruby1.9

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
ruby1.9

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-651-1
    • Ruby vulnerabilities
    • 10 October 2008
    • USN-691-1
    • Ruby vulnerability
    • 16 December 2008

Other references