Out-of-bounds Read Affecting rubygems package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RUBYGEMS-1385003
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed31 Jul 2019

Introduced: 31 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-16162  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 rubygems.

NVD Description

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

Onigmo through 6.2.0 has an out-of-bounds read in parse_char_class because of missing codepoint validation in regenc.c.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1