CVE-2013-4164: Buffer Overflow
First published: Sat Nov 23 2013(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Ruby-lang Ruby | =1.8 | |
| Ruby-lang Ruby | =1.9 | |
| Ruby-lang Ruby | =1.9.1 | |
| Ruby-lang Ruby | =1.9.2 | |
| Ruby-lang Ruby | =1.9.3 | |
| Ruby-lang Ruby | =2.0.0 | |
| Ruby-lang Ruby | =2.1-preview1 |
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Reference Links
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-04/0134.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0103.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00027.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00028.html
- http://osvdb.org/100113
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1763.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1764.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1767.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0011.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0215.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55787
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57376
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2809
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2810
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63873
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2035-1
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4164
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6536
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-in-floating-point-parsing-cve-2013-4164
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-1-9-3-p484-is-released
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-2-0-0-p353-is-released
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/weakness
- agent/severity
- agent/references
- agent/author
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/event
- agent/type
- agent/remedy
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- vendor/ruby-lang
- canonical/ruby-lang ruby
- version/ruby-lang ruby/1.8
- version/ruby-lang ruby/1.9
- version/ruby-lang ruby/1.9.1
- version/ruby-lang ruby/1.9.2
- version/ruby-lang ruby/1.9.3
- version/ruby-lang ruby/2.0.0
- version/ruby-lang ruby/2.1-preview1