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Information Exposure Affecting rubygem-bigdecimal package, versions <0:1.2.0-33.el7_4

Severity

 Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.67% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RUBYGEMBIGDECIMAL-1479856
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Mar 2017
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Introduced: 2 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-14064  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 rubygem-bigdecimal to version 0:1.2.0-33.el7_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:0378.

NVD Description

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

Ruby through 2.2.7, 2.3.x through 2.3.4, and 2.4.x through 2.4.1 can expose arbitrary memory during a JSON.generate call. The issues lies in using strdup in ext/json/ext/generator/generator.c, which will stop after encountering a '\0' byte, returning a pointer to a string of length zero, which is not the length stored in space_len.