RHEL 6 : ruby (RHSA-2013:1764)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2013:1764 advisory. Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks...

ruby: heap overflow in floating point parsing

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...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update

Updated ruby packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

ruby: heap overflow in floating point parsing

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...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby193-ruby security update

Updated ruby193-ruby packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Software Collections 1. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity ratin...

FreeBSD : ruby -- Heap Overflow in Floating Point Parsing (cc9043cf-7f7a-426e-b2cc-8d1980618113)

Ruby developers report : Any time a string is converted to a floating point value, a specially crafted string can cause a heap overflow. This can lead to a denial of service attack via segmentation faults and possibly arbitrary code execution. Any program that converts input of unknown origin to...

Heap overflow

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...

CVE-2013-4164

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...

Ruby on Rails JSON Processor Floating Point Heap Overflow DoS

When Ruby attempts to convert a string representation of a large floating point decimal number to its floating point equivalent, a heap-based buffer overflow can be triggered. This module has been tested successfully on a Ruby on Rails application using Ruby version 1.9.3-p448 with WebRick and Th...

CVE-2013-4164

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...

CVE-2013-4164 ruby: heap overflow in floating point parsing

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...

Ruby: Ruby: Heap Overflow in Floating Point Parsing

Any time a string is converted to a floating point value, a specially crafted string can cause a heap overflow. This can lead to a denial of service attack via segmentation faults and possibly arbitrary code execution. Any program that converts input of unknown origin to floating point values...

ruby -- Heap Overflow in Floating Point Parsing

Ruby developers report: Any time a string is converted to a floating point value, a specially crafted string can cause a heap overflow. This can lead to a denial of service attack via segmentation faults and possibly arbitrary code execution. Any program that converts input of unknown origin to...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2076

Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x, when running on AMD64 processors, only save/restore the FOP, FIP, and FDP x87 registers in FXSAVE/FXRSTOR when an exception is pending, which allows one domain to determine portions of the state of floating point instructions of other domains, which can be leveraged t...

CVE-2013-2076

Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x, when running on AMD64 processors, only save/restore the FOP, FIP, and FDP x87 registers in FXSAVE/FXRSTOR when an exception is pending, which allows one domain to determine portions of the state of floating point instructions of other domains, which can be leveraged t...

CVE-2013-2076

Xen 4.0.x, 4.1.x, and 4.2.x, when running on AMD64 processors, only save/restore the FOP, FIP, and FDP x87 registers in FXSAVE/FXRSTOR when an exception is pending, which allows one domain to determine portions of the state of floating point instructions of other domains, which can be leveraged t...

PT-2013-3530 · Xen +1 · Xen +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Xen versions 4.0.x through 4.2.x Description: The issue allows one domain to determine portions of the state of floating point instructions of other domains, potentially leading to the disclosure of sensitive information such as cryptographic...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20130424)

It was found that getaddrinfo did not limit the amount of stack memory used during name resolution. An attacker able to make an application resolve an attacker-controlled hostname or IP address could possibly cause the application to exhaust all stack memory and crash. CVE-2013-1914 A flaw was...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security and bug fix update

Updated glibc packages that fix two security issues and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, ar...

USN-1589-2: GNU C Library regression

USN-1589-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the GNU C Library. One of the updates exposed a regression in the floating point parser. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that positional arguments to the printf family of functions...