CVE-2013-4164 in Mac OS X
Summary
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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Reservation
06/12/2013
Disclosure
11/23/2013
Status
Confirmed
Entries
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| ID | Vulnerability | CWE | Exp | Cou | CVE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13039 | Apple Mac OS X Ruby memory corruption | 119 | High | Official fix | CVE-2013-4164 |
| 11266 | Ruby memory corruption | 119 | High | Official fix | CVE-2013-4164 |