vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-2337: ruby2.3 -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 6, 2017
Added
Feb 20, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Type confusion exists in _cancel_eval Ruby's TclTkIp class method. Attacker passing different type of object than String as "retval" argument can cause arbitrary code execution.

Solution

debian-upgrade-ruby2-3
Title
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