cve/2009/CVE-2009-1904.md

### [CVE-2009-1904](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1904)
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### Description

The BigDecimal library in Ruby 1.8.6 before p369 and 1.8.7 before p173 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string argument that represents a large number, as demonstrated by an attempted conversion to the Float data type.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9780

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/CVEDB/PoC-List
- https://github.com/CVEDB/awesome-cve-repo
- https://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix