CVE-2013-4164

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.

Affected products

Alt Linux, Centos, Red Hat, Ruby, Suse

Ruby-lang Ruby

= 1.8, 1.9, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 1.9.3, 2.0.0, 2.1

Fix

Available

CVSS 2.0

6.8 MEDIUM

EPSS

35.0% (98th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-119

NVD status

Modified

Published

2013-11-23