Out-of-Bounds Affecting rubygem-psych package, versions <0:2.0.0-22.el7_0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-RUBYGEMPSYCH-2487733
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed15 Nov 2014

Introduced: 15 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-4975  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 rubygem-psych to version 0:2.0.0-22.el7_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2014-1912.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem-psych package and not the rubygem-psych package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Off-by-one error in the encodes function in pack.c in Ruby 1.9.3 and earlier, and 2.x through 2.1.2, when using certain format string specifiers, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via vectors that trigger a stack-based buffer overflow.

CVSS Scores

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