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CVE-2013-4164

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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.

Date published : 2013-11-23

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-04/0134.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0103.html

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