Out-of-Bounds Affecting ruby package, versions [,1.9.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RUBY-2370162
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-4975  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ruby to version 1.9.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

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