cve/2008/CVE-2008-3443.md

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.

POC

Reference

• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4158
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9570
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6239

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.