CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-0898

9.1 CRITICAL Published 2017-09-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-09-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-134

Description

Ruby before 2.4.2, 2.3.5, and 2.2.8 is vulnerable to a malicious format string which contains a precious specifier (*) with a huge minus value. Such situation can lead to a buffer overrun, resulting in a heap memory corruption or an information disclosure from the heap.

Affected configurations

• ruby-lang ruby 2.2.0 • ruby-lang ruby 2.2.1 • ruby-lang ruby 2.2.2 • ruby-lang ruby 2.2.3 • ruby-lang ruby 2.2.4 • ruby-lang ruby 2.2.5 • ruby-lang ruby 2.2.6 • ruby-lang ruby 2.2.7 • ruby-lang ruby 2.3.0 • ruby-lang ruby 2.3.1 • ruby-lang ruby 2.3.2 • ruby-lang ruby 2.3.3 • ruby-lang ruby 2.3.4 • ruby-lang ruby 2.4.0 • ruby-lang ruby 2.4.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness

References