Out-of-bounds Read Affecting ruby-doc package, versions <0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-RUBYDOC-5825995
  • published8 Aug 2023
  • disclosed24 May 2017

Introduced: 24 May 2017

CVE-2017-9224  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 ruby-doc to version 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.5 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2023-2201.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-doc package and not the ruby-doc package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Oniguruma 6.2.0, as used in Oniguruma-mod in Ruby through 2.4.1 and mbstring in PHP through 7.1.5. A stack out-of-bounds read occurs in match_at() during regular expression searching. A logical error involving order of validation and access in match_at() could result in an out-of-bounds read from a stack buffer.

CVSS Scores

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