Out-of-bounds Read Affecting ruby-irb package, versions <0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.51% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-RUBYIRB-3042909
  • published12 Oct 2022
  • disclosed9 May 2022

Introduced: 9 May 2022

CVE-2022-28739  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 ruby-irb to version 0:2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.3 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2022-1853.

NVD Description

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

There is a buffer over-read in Ruby before 2.6.10, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, 3.x before 3.0.4, and 3.1.x before 3.1.2. It occurs in String-to-Float conversion, including Kernel#Float and String#to_f.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1