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Ruby Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability - CVE-2013-4164 - Vulnerability Database
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Ruby Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability - CVE-2013-4164

Medium
Reference: CVE-2013-4164
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4164
Title: Ruby Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability
Overview:

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.