Out-of-bounds Read Affecting ruby2.5-devel-extra package, versions <2.5.9-150000.4.23.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.39% (74th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk ID SNYK-SLES150-RUBY25DEVELEXTRA-2808171
  • published 4 May 2022
  • disclosed 3 May 2022

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 ruby2.5-devel-extra to version 2.5.9-150000.4.23.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby2.5-devel-extra package and not the ruby2.5-devel-extra package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a buffer over-read in Ruby before 2.6.10, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, 3.x before 3.0.4, and 3.1.x before 3.1.2. It occurs in String-to-Float conversion, including Kernel#Float and String#to_f.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
Expand this section

NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
Expand this section

SUSE

6.2 medium
Expand this section

Red Hat

6.2 medium