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ruby: heap overflow in floating point parsing

🗓️ 11 Mar 2014 16:56:48Reported by RedHatType 
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Ruby heap overflow in float parsing enables denial of service and possible code execution via strings to floats (to float or json parse) on Unix.

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IBM Security Bulletins		IBM Security Network Protection / IBM QRadar Network Security / XGS Technote Index
31 Jan 202100:10
–ibm
IBM Security Bulletins		Security Bulletin: IBM Security Network Protection System can be affected by vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails and the Ruby language (CVE-2013-4492, CVE-2013-4164)
16 Jun 201821:16
–ibm
Tenable Nessus		Mac OS X < 10.9.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2014-002)
27 May 201400:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Amazon Linux AMI : ruby19 (ALAS-2013-247)
26 Nov 201300:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Amazon Linux AMI : ruby (ALAS-2013-248)
26 Nov 201300:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		CentOS 6 : ruby (CESA-2013:1764)
12 Nov 201400:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Debian DSA-2809-1 : ruby1.8 - several vulnerabilities
5 Dec 201300:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Debian DSA-2810-1 : ruby1.9.1 - heap overflow
5 Dec 201300:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : ruby (EulerOS-SA-2019-1428)
14 May 201900:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		Fedora 18 : ruby-1.9.3.484-32.fc18 (2013-22315)
11 Dec 201300:00
–nessus
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28 Jun 2026 12:23Current
7.4High risk
Vulners AI Score7.4
CVSS 26.8
EPSS0.34968
CWE-681
rubyheap overflowfloat parsingdenial of servicecode executionto floatjson parse
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