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Ruby Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability - CVE-2016-2338 - Vulnerability Database
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Ruby Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability - CVE-2016-2338

Critical
Reference: CVE-2016-2338
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2338
Title: Ruby Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability
Overview:

An exploitable heap overflow vulnerability exists in the Psych::Emitter start_document function of Ruby. In Psych::Emitter start_document function heap buffer quotheadquot allocation is made based on tags array length. Specially constructed object passed as element of tags array can increase this array size after mentioned allocation and cause heap overflow.