An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats.

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1558-1 ruby2.1 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4332-1 ruby2.3 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-8239 An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3808-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
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{'score': 0.03193}

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{'score': 0.03423}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:24:32.115Z

Reserved: 2018-09-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-16396

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-11-16T18:29:01.083

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:52:40.320

Link: CVE-2018-16396

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-10-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-16396 - Bugzilla

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