Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting rubygems-devel package, versions *
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- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed14 Jun 2016
Introduced: 14 Jun 2016
CVE-2016-2337 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 rubygems-devel.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygems-devel package and not the rubygems-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
Type confusion exists in _cancel_eval Ruby's TclTkIp class method. Attacker passing different type of object than String as "retval" argument can cause arbitrary code execution.