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CVE-2014-4975 (GCVE-0-2014-4975)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-11-15 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:34
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2014-07-09 00:00
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