Debian Security Advisory DSA 2809-1 (ruby1.8 - several vulnerabilities)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the interpreter for the Ruby language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2013-1821 Ben Murphy discovered that unrestricted entity expansion in REXML can lead to a Denial of Service by consuming a...

DSA-2810-1 ruby1.9.1 - heap overflow

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2810-1 (ruby1.9.1 - heap overflow)

Charlie Somerville discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled floating point number conversion. If an application using Ruby accepted untrusted input strings and converted them to floating point numbers, an attacker able to provide such input could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execu...

DSA-2809-1 ruby1.8 - several

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Ubuntu Update for ruby1.8 USN-2035-1

Check for the Version of ruby1.8 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN20351.nasl 8672 2018-02-05 16:39:18Z teissa $ Ubuntu Update for ruby1.8 USN-2035-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free softwar...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2810-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[USN-2035-1] Ruby vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2035-1 November 27, 2013 ruby1.8, ruby1.9.1 vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its...

USN-2035-1: Ruby vulnerabilities

Charlie Somerville discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled floating point number conversion. An attacker could possibly use this issue with an application that converts text to floating point numbers to cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitra...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: ruby security update

Updated ruby packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, 6.3, and 6.4 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which giv...

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 security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:1764 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...