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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade ruby2.2Upgrade ruby | Aug 22, 2024 | Sep 15, 2017 |
| Amazon_linux | — | Upgrade ruby23Upgrade ruby22Upgrade ruby24 | Oct 3, 2017 | Sep 15, 2017 |
| Apple Osx Ruby | — | Upgrade macOS to the latest versionApply Apple macOS Security Update 2018-002 High Sierra | Oct 31, 2018 | Sep 15, 2017 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade rubygem-minitestUpgrade rubygem-jsonUpgrade rubygemsUpgrade rubygems-develUpgrade rubygem-psychUpgrade ruby-libsUpgrade rubygem-io-consoleUpgrade ruby-tcltkUpgrade rubygem-bigdecimalUpgrade ruby-irbUpgrade rubygem-rdocUpgrade rubygem-rakeUpgrade ruby-debuginfoUpgrade ruby-docUpgrade ruby-develUpgrade ruby | Mar 13, 2018 | Sep 15, 2017 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade ruby2.3Upgrade ruby1.8Upgrade ruby1.9.1 | Dec 5, 2017 | Sep 15, 2017 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade ruby | Sep 19, 2017 | Sep 19, 2017 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade dev-lang/ruby. | Oct 30, 2017 | Sep 15, 2017 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp1 | — | Upgrade ruby-libsUpgrade rubyUpgrade ruby-irb | Mar 16, 2018 | Sep 15, 2017 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp2 | — | Upgrade ruby-irbUpgrade rubyUpgrade ruby-libs | Mar 16, 2018 | Sep 15, 2017 |
| Oracle Solaris | — | Upgrade runtime/ruby-23 to version 2.3.8-11.4.6.0.1.1.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade runtime/ruby-23/ruby-tk to version 2.3.8-11.4.6.0.1.1.0 on Solaris 11.4 | Feb 20, 2019 | Sep 15, 2017 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade rubygem-psychUpgrade rubygem-minitestUpgrade ruby-libsUpgrade rubygemsUpgrade rubygem-rdocUpgrade rubygem-jsonUpgrade ruby-docUpgrade rubygem-bigdecimalUpgrade ruby-tcltkUpgrade rubygem-rakeUpgrade ruby-develUpgrade rubyUpgrade ruby-irbUpgrade rubygems-develUpgrade rubygem-io-console | Mar 1, 2018 | Sep 14, 2017 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade rubygem-bigdecimalUpgrade rubygem-rakeUpgrade ruby-debuginfoUpgrade rubygem-psychUpgrade rubygem-rdocUpgrade rubygem-io-consoleUpgrade ruby-docUpgrade rubygems-develUpgrade rubyUpgrade rubygemsUpgrade rubygem-minitestUpgrade ruby-tcltkUpgrade ruby-libsUpgrade ruby-develUpgrade rubygem-jsonUpgrade ruby-irb | Mar 1, 2018 | Sep 15, 2017 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade libruby2_1-2_1Upgrade ruby2.1-stdlibUpgrade yast2-ruby-bindingsUpgrade ruby2.1Upgrade ruby2.1-devel | Jun 10, 2020 | Sep 15, 2017 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade ruby1.9.1Upgrade ruby1.9.3Upgrade libruby2.0Upgrade libruby1.9.1Upgrade libruby2.3Upgrade ruby2.3Upgrade ruby2.0 | Oct 5, 2017 | Sep 15, 2017 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Sep 15, 2017 |
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