CVE-2016-2336 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ruby2.3  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-RUBY23-622131
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed6 Jan 2017

Introduced: 6 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-2336  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby2.3 package and not the ruby2.3 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Type confusion exists in two methods of Ruby's WIN32OLE class, ole_invoke and ole_query_interface. Attacker passing different type of object than this assumed by developers can cause arbitrary code execution.