PT-2008-4109 · Ruby Lang+3 · Ruby+11

Published 2008-06-24 · Updated 2018-11-01 · CVE-2008-2664

Mitre

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The rb str format function in Ruby 1.8.4 and earlier, 1.8.5 before 1.8.5-p231, 1.8.6 before 1.8.6-p230, 1.8.7 before 1.8.7-p22, and 1.9.0 before 1.9.0-2 allows context-dependent attackers to trigger memory corruption via unspecified vectors related to alloca, a different issue than CVE-2008-2662, CVE-2008-2663, and CVE-2008-2725. NOTE: as of 20080624, there has been inconsistent usage of multiple CVE identifiers related to Ruby. The CVE description should be regarded as authoritative, although it is likely to change.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-2664

DSA-1612-1

DSA-1618-1

RHSA-2008:0561

RHSA-2008:0562

RHSA-2008_0561

RHSA-2026:7305

RHSA-2026:7307

RHSA-2026:8838

Affected Products

Ruby

Debian

Irb

Ruby-Devel

Ruby-Docs

Ruby-Irb

Ruby-Libs

Ruby-Mode

Ruby-Rdoc

Ruby-Ri

Ruby-Tcltk

Ubuntu

References · 41

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:140 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:142 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-17.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.429562 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/06/20/arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerabilities · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1612 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00937.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-621-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:141 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1618 · Vendor Advisory
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0561.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2664 · Security Note
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jun/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://matasano.com/log/1070/updates-on-drew-yaos-terrible-ruby-vulnerabilities · Note