Description
Integer overflow in the rb_ary_fill function in array.c in Ruby before revision 17756 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a call to the Array#fill method with a start (aka beg) argument greater than ARY_MAX_SIZE. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for other closely related integer overflows.
Published: 2008-07-09
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 11.4% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1612-1 New ruby1.8 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1618-1 New ruby1.9 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-651-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
References
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http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30927 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31006 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31062 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31090 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31181 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/31256 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/32219 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/33178 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-17.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=17756 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0218 cve-icon cve-icon
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0218 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1612 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1618 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:140 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:141 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:142 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/02/3 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0561.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494104/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-260A.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2584 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2639 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2376 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9863 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/651-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2376 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00112.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00161.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

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Redhat Enterprise Linux Fedora 8
Ruby-lang Ruby
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:58:02.531Z

Reserved: 2008-05-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-2376

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-07-09T00:41:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-2376

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2008-07-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-2376 - Bugzilla

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