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Cent OS: CVE-2014-4975: CESA-2014:1912 (ruby)

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Cent OS: CVE-2014-4975: CESA-2014:1912 (ruby)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/15/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Off-by-one error in the encodes function in pack.c in Ruby 1.9.3 and earlier, and 2.x through 2.1.2, when using certain format string specifiers, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via vectors that trigger a stack-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-ruby
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-devel
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-doc
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-irb
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-libs
  • centos-upgrade-ruby-tcltk
  • centos-upgrade-rubygem-bigdecimal
  • centos-upgrade-rubygem-io-console
  • centos-upgrade-rubygem-json
  • centos-upgrade-rubygem-minitest
  • centos-upgrade-rubygem-psych
  • centos-upgrade-rubygem-rake
  • centos-upgrade-rubygem-rdoc
  • centos-upgrade-rubygems
  • centos-upgrade-rubygems-devel

References

  • DSA-3157
  • MDVSA-2015:129
  • CVE-2014-4975
  • RHSA-2014:1912
  • RHSA-2014:1913
  • RHSA-2014:1914
  • USN-2397-1
  • ruby-cve20144975-bo(94706)
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