CVE-2013-4164 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Ruby 1.8 1.9 before 1.9.3-p484 2.0 before 2.0.0-p353 2.1 before 2.1.0 preview2 and trunk before revision 43780 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a string that is converted to a floating point value as demonstrated using (1) the to_f method or (2) JSON.parse.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-04/0134.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0103.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00009.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00027.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00028.html http://osvdb.org/100113 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1763.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1764.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1767.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0011.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0215.html http://secunia.com/advisories/55787 http://secunia.com/advisories/57376 http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2809 http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2810 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63873 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2035-1 https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4164 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6536 https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-in-floating-point-parsing-cve-2013-4164 https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-1-9-3-p484-is-released https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-2-0-0-p353-is-released