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.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100862 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039363 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3485 | |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0378 | |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0583 | |
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0585 | |
https://github.com/mruby/mruby/issues/3722 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
https://hackerone.com/reports/212241 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00012.html | |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-18 | |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3685-1/ | |
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4031 | |
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/09/14/sprintf-buffer-underrun-cve-2017-0898/ | Vendor Advisory |
History
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: hackerone
Published: 2017-09-15T00:00:00
Updated: 2018-07-14T09:57:01
Reserved: 2016-11-30T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-0898
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-09-15T19:29:00.190
Modified: 2018-07-15T01:29:01.553
Link: CVE-2017-0898
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE