Description
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.
Published: 2013-11-23
Score: 6.8 Medium
EPSS: 12.0% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2809-1 ruby1.8 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-2810-1 ruby1.9.1 security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2035-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
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Ruby-lang Ruby
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T16:30:50.071Z

Reserved: 2013-06-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2013-4164

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2013-11-23T19:55:03.517

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2013-4164

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2013-11-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-4164 - Bugzilla

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