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Debian: CVE-2017-14033: ruby1.9.1, ruby2.3 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 19, 2017
Added
Dec 5, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The decode method in the OpenSSL::ASN1 module in Ruby before 2.2.8, 2.3.x before 2.3.5, and 2.4.x through 2.4.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (interpreter crash) via a crafted string.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-ruby1-9-1debian-upgrade-ruby2-3
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