CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-3916
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-11-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-19
Description
The str_buf_cat function in string.c in Ruby 1.9.3, 2.0.0, and 2.1 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via a long string.
Affected configurations
• rubyonrails rails 1.9.3
• rubyonrails rails 2.0.0
• rubyonrails rails 2.1.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/362 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/375 seclists.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67705 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9709 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/93505 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/362 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/375 seclists.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67705 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9709 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/93505 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com