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CVE-2013-4164

CVE-2013-4164

30Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 35%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDNov 23
metasploitNov 22
exploitation probability
35%top 2% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
References
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-04/0134.htmlhttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0103.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00009.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00027.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00028.htmlhttp://osvdb.org/100113http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1763.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1764.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1767.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0011.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0215.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/55787