CVE-2013-4164

ruby: heap overflow in floating point parsing

Published Nov 23, 2013 CVSS 2.0 · 6.8 Medium EPSS 35.0% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

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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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
redhat
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 4:30 PM
Reserved
Jun 12, 2013, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 23, 2013, 7:55 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 11:56 PM
Severity
Critical
Public date
Nov 22, 2013, 12:00 AM