Ruby Interpreter Heap Overflow Vulnerability (Nov 2013) - Windows
🗓️ 27 Nov 2013 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2013 Greenbone AGType
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| securityfocus | www.securityfocus.com/bid/63873 |
| xforce | www.xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/89191 |
| secunia | www.secunia.com/advisories/55787 |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:ruby-lang:ruby";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.903502");
script_version("2025-09-09T05:38:49+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-4164");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-09 05:38:49 +0000 (Tue, 09 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2013-11-27 20:39:27 +0530 (Wed, 27 Nov 2013)");
script_name("Ruby Interpreter Heap Overflow Vulnerability (Nov 2013) - Windows");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Ruby Interpreter is prone to a heap overflow vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 1.9.3 patchlevel 484, 2.0.0 patchlevel 353 or
later.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to improper sanitization while processing user supplied
input data during conversion of strings to floating point values.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Ruby Interpreter version 1.8, 1.9 before 1.9.3 Patchlevel 484, 2.0 before
2.0.0 Patchlevel 353.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote attacker to cause denial of service
or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/55787");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63873");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/89191");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2013 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_ruby_consolidation.nasl", "os_detection.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ruby/detected", "Host/runs_windows");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if(isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe:CPE)))
exit(0);
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, port:port, exit_no_version:TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if(version_is_equal(version:version, test_version:"1.8") ||
version_in_range(version:version, test_version:"1.9", test_version2:"1.9.3.p483") ||
version_in_range(version:version, test_version:"2.0", test_version2:"2.0.0.p352")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:version, fixed_version:"1.9.3-p483 / 2.0.0-p352", install_path:location);
security_message(port:port, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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09 Sep 2025 00:00Current
7.6High risk
Vulners AI Score7.6
CVSS 26.8
EPSS0.34968