CVE-2008-2376

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-07-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

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.

Affected products

Ruby: 1.8.6.230

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Sep/msg00005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30927
http://secunia.com/advisories/31006
http://secunia.com/advisories/31062
http://secunia.com/advisories/31090
http://secunia.com/advisories/31181
http://secunia.com/advisories/31256
http://secunia.com/advisories/32219
http://secunia.com/advisories/33178
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-17.xml
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=17756
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0218

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