Out-of-Bounds Affecting ruby19-debuginfo package, versions <0:1.9.3.484-31.55.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
critical

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
34.97% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-RUBY19DEBUGINFO-1670898
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed23 Nov 2013

Introduced: 23 Nov 2013

CVE-2013-4164  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 ruby19-debuginfo to version 0:1.9.3.484-31.55.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2013-247.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby19-debuginfo package and not the ruby19-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Ruby 1.8, 1.9 before 1.9.3-p484, 2.0 before 2.0.0-p353, 2.1 before 2.1.0 preview2, and trunk before revision 43780 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a string that is converted to a floating point value, as demonstrated using (1) the to_f method or (2) JSON.parse.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1