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CVE-2013-4164

Date: November 23, 2013

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.6

Related Resources (26)

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1764.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1767.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/57376

Url: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-2-0-0-p353-is-released

Url: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-in-floating-point-parsing-cve-2013-4164

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2810

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00028.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0215.html

Url: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0103.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2035-1

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2809

Url: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6536

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2013-4164

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00027.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4164

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1763.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4164

Url: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-1-9-3-p484-is-released

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/55787

Url: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-04/0134.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0011.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63873

Url: http://osvdb.org/100113

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00009.html

Url: https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4164

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2013-4164

Severity Score

5.6

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.6
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2013-4164

Date: November 23, 2013

Language: C

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CVSS v2

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