CVE-2013-4164

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 9
Modified
Published: 23 Nov 2013, 19:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 16:30

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
40/100
CVSS Score
6.8 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
11.96% MEDIUM
12% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
2 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

23 Nov 2013, 19:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 16:30
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 11.96%• Percentile: 94%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • ruby-lang•ruby

    1.8 | 1.9 | 1.9.1 | 1.9.2 | 1.9.3 | 2.0.0 | 2.1:preview1

References (22)