THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-2376
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-2376

Fedora 8 vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.6%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
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 vendor
Redhat
Affected product
Fedora 8
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2008-07-09

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-2376

  • Confirm whether Redhat Fedora 8 is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-2376.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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