CVE-2009-4124

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-119 Buffer Errors

Publication date:

11/12/2009

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the rb_str_justify function in string.c in Ruby 1.9.1 before 1.9.1-p376 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving (1) String#ljust, (2) String#center, or (3) String#rjust. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

10.00

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:-p0::::::
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:-p129::::::
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:-p243::::::
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:-preview_1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:-preview_2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:-rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:-rc2::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:-p0::::::
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:-p129::::::
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:-p243::::::
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:-preview_1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:-preview_2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:-rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:-rc2::::::

CVE-2009-4124

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools