Out-of-Bounds Affecting ruby1.9.1 package, versions <1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-RUBY191-321141
  • published15 Nov 2014
  • 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 Ubuntu:14.04 ruby1.9.1 to version 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby1.9.1 package and not the ruby1.9.1 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 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 Base Scores

version 3.1