mruby Denial of Service Vulnerability

mruby is a lightweight implementation of the Ruby language. A security vulnerability exists in the gc.c file 'markcontextstack' function in mruby 1.2.0 and earlier. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability with the help of a specially crafted .rb file to cause a denial of service heap reuse aft...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9527

The markcontextstack function in gc.c in mruby through 1.2.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based use-after-free and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .rb file...