CVE-2013-4164

Description

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.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-04/0134.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0103.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00009.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00027.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00028.html
• http://osvdb.org/100113
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1763.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1764.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1767.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0011.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0215.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55787
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57376
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2809
• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2810
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63873
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2035-1
• https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4164
• https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6536
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-in-floating-point-parsing-cve-2013-4164
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-1-9-3-p484-is-released
• https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-2-0-0-p353-is-released
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-04/0134.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0103.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00009.html

CWEs

CWE-119