CVE-2013-4164
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 23, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 12, 2013
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.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4164
- APPLE-SA-2014-10-16-3vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1835vendor-advisory
- USN-2035-1vendor-advisory
- APPLE-SA-2014-04-22-1vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2014:0215vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2013:1897vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2013:1763vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2013:1764vendor-advisory
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-2-0-0-p353-is-released
- 63873vdb-entry
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-in-floating-point-parsing-cve-2013-4164
- RHSA-2013:1767vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2014:0011vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1834vendor-advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6536
- 100113vdb-entry
- DSA-2810vendor-advisory
- 57376third-party-advisory
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-1-9-3-p484-is-released
- DSA-2809vendor-advisory
- 55787third-party-advisory
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