Name | CVE-2013-4164 |
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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DSA-2809-1, DSA-2810-1 |
Debian Bugs | 730178, 730189, 730190 |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ruby1.8 | source | squeeze | 1.8.7.302-2squeeze2 | DSA-2809-1 | ||
ruby1.8 | source | wheezy | 1.8.7.358-7.1+deb7u1 | DSA-2809-1 | ||
ruby1.8 | source | (unstable) | 1.8.7.358-9 | 730189 | ||
ruby1.9.1 | source | squeeze | 1.9.2.0-2+deb6u2 | DSA-2810-1 | ||
ruby1.9.1 | source | wheezy | 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u2 | DSA-2810-1 | ||
ruby1.9.1 | source | (unstable) | 1.9.3.484-1 | 730178 | ||
ruby2.0 | source | (unstable) | 2.0.0.353-1 | 730190 |
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-in-floating-point-parsing-cve-2013-4164/