Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby1.9.1  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-RUBY191-618125
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed19 Jul 2017

Introduced: 19 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11465  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

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.

The parser_yyerror function in the UTF-8 parser in Ruby 2.4.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write or read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Ruby script, related to the parser_tokadd_utf8 function in parse.y. NOTE: this might have security relevance as a bypass of a $SAFE protection mechanism.