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CVE-2013-4164

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
23/11/2013
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.1:preview1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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