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CVE-2008-2376

Integer overflow in the rb_ary_fill function in array.c in Ruby before revision 17756 allows...

7.5 HighFix available

CVE-2008-2376 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Ruby-lang Ruby, published July 9, 2008. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 3.60%, the 89th percentile. Fixed in ruby1.8 1.8.5-4etch2.

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.

Exploit likelihood

3.60%Up 0.9 points since Feb 4, 2022
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What each source reports

NVD Score used 7.5

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.

Record
CVE-2008-2376
CVSS 2.0
7.5 HighAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-189
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

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.

Record
CVE-2008-2376
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2008-2371 No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2008-2371
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-f7wf-fwmg-r7g3 No score

Integer overflow in the rb_ary_fill function in array.c in Ruby before revision 17756 allows...

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.

Record
GHSA-f7wf-fwmg-r7g3
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVBELL-CVE-2008-2376 7.5

CVE-2008-2376 does not affect BellSoft software

Record
BELL-CVE-2008-2376
CVSS 2.0
7.5 HighAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
ruby1.8
Debian:4.0
 before 1.8.5-4etch2, plus listed versions
1.8.5-41.8.5-4etch1
1.8.5-4etch2
ruby1.9
Debian:4.0
 before 1.9.0+20060609-1etch2, plus listed versions
1.9.0+20060609-11.9.0+20060609-1etch1
1.9.0+20060609-1etch2
irb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-mode
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-tcltk
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
irb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
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0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
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0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
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0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-mode
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-tcltk
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
irb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
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0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-mode
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-tcltk
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
irb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-mode
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby-tcltk
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws
 before 0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
0:1.8.1-7.el4_6.1
ruby
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-mode
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client_workstation
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-irb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-rdoc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-ri
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-tcltk
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::client
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-irb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-mode
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-rdoc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-ri
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
ruby-tcltk
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server
 before 0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
0:1.8.5-5.el5_2.3
irb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::as
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::as
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::as
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::as
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::as
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby-tcltk
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::as
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
irb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::es
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::es
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::es
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::es
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::es
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby-tcltk
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::es
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
irb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::ws
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::ws
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::ws
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::ws
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::ws
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
ruby-tcltk
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:2.1::ws
 before 0:1.6.4-6.el2
0:1.6.4-6.el2
irb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-mode
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-tcltk
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
irb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop
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0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-mode
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-tcltk
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
irb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es
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0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es
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0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es
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0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-mode
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es
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0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-tcltk
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
irb
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-docs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-libs
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws
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0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-mode
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3
ruby-tcltk
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws
 before 0:1.6.8-12.el3
0:1.6.8-12.el3

History

History
WhenChangedSources
2026-11-03aliasesEUVD
2026-11-02createdCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

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