Out-of-Bounds Affecting ruby2.0 package, versions <2.0.0.343-1ubuntu1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.3% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-RUBY20-281588
  • published23 Nov 2013
  • disclosed23 Nov 2013

Introduced: 23 Nov 2013

CVE-2013-4164  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 ruby2.0 to version 2.0.0.343-1ubuntu1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby2.0 package and not the ruby2.0 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Heap-based buffer overflow in Ruby 1.8, 1.9 before 1.9.3-p484, 2.0 before 2.0.0-p353, 2.1 before 2.1.0 preview2, and trunk before revision 43780 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a string that is converted to a floating point value, as demonstrated using (1) the to_f method or (2) JSON.parse.

CVSS Scores

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