CVE-2008-2725: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the (1) rb_ary_splice function in Ruby 1.8.4 and earlier, 1.8.5 before 1.8.5-p231, 1.8.6 before 1.8.6-p230, and 1.8.7 before 1.8.7-p22; and (2) the rb_ary_replace function in 1.6.x allows context-dependent attackers to trigger memory corruption via unspecified vectors, aka the "REALLOC_N" variant, a different issue than CVE-2008-2662, CVE-2008-2663, and CVE-2008-2664. NOTE: as of 20080624, there has been inconsistent usage of multiple CVE identifiers related to Ruby. The CVE description should be regarded as authoritative, although it is likely to change.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 6.06 only; version 7.04 only; version 7.10 only; version 8.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 4.0 only
• Ruby-Lang Ruby: up to and including 1.8.4; from 1.8.5, before 1.8.5.231 (fixed in 1.8.5.231); from 1.8.6, before 1.8.6.230 (fixed in 1.8.6.230); from 1.8.7, before 1.8.7.22 (fixed in 1.8.7.22)

Published 2008-06-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.