PT-2014-5605 · Ruby · Ruby

H.Shirosaki + 1 · Published 2014-11-16 · Updated 2019-08-08 · CVE-2014-3916

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ruby versions 1.9.3, 2.0.0, and 2.1

Description The issue allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a segmentation fault and crash, by utilizing a long string in the str buf cat function.

Recommendations For Ruby version 1.9.3, update to a version that fixes the issue in the str buf cat function. For Ruby version 2.0.0, update to a version that fixes the issue in the str buf cat function. For Ruby version 2.1, update to a version that fixes the issue in the str buf cat function.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-19

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-3916

Affected Products

Ruby

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3916 · Security Note
• https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9709 · Vendor Advisory
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/362 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3916 · Note
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/375 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/93505 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/67705 · Note