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Entered | Topic |
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2013-11-23 | ruby -- Heap Overflow in Floating Point Parsing |
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Type | Candidate |
Name | CVE-2013-4164 |
Phase | Assigned(20130612) |
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.
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