vulnerability

OS X update for Ruby (CVE-2017-0898)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 15, 2017
Added
Oct 31, 2018
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

Ruby before 2.4.2, 2.3.5, and 2.2.8 is vulnerable to a malicious format string which contains a precious specifier (*) with a huge minus value. Such situation can lead to a buffer overrun, resulting in a heap memory corruption or an information disclosure from the heap.

Solutions

apple-osx-security-update-2018-002-high-sierraapple-osx-upgrade-10_13_6
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