CVE-2016-2336

First published: Fri Jan 06 2017(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cret@cert.org

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