CVE-2013-4164
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 34.96% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 98.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Critical. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2013-11-23 19:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 16:30Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2013-06-12
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 614adb3191fed84b03a216d81470010e39dbf3a2a9407a7bd1337fc01a695852
05 Affected products
06 References
- puppet.comhttps://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4164
- archives.neohapsis.comAPPLE-SA-2014-10-16-3http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0103.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2013:1835http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00028.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2035-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2035-1
- archives.neohapsis.comAPPLE-SA-2014-04-22-1http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-04/0134.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2014:0215http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0215.html
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2013:1897http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00009.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2013:1763http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1763.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2013:1764http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1764.html
- www.ruby-lang.orghttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-2-0-0-p353-is-released
- www.securityfocus.com63873http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63873
- www.ruby-lang.orghttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-in-floating-point-parsing-cve-2013-4164
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2013:1767http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1767.html
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2014:0011http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0011.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2013:1834http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00027.html
- support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT6536
- osvdb.org100113http://osvdb.org/100113
- www.debian.orgDSA-2810http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2810
- secunia.com57376http://secunia.com/advisories/57376
- www.ruby-lang.orghttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-1-9-3-p484-is-released
- www.debian.orgDSA-2809http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2809
- secunia.com55787http://secunia.com/advisories/55787
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- ruby1.9.1 Fixed in 1.9.3.448-1ubuntu2
- ruby2.0 Fixed in 2.0.0.343-1ubuntu1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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