CVE-2013-4164 (GCVE-0-2013-4164)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-11-23 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:30
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 81/100 over 1011 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2809 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
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Date Public
2013-11-22 00:00
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