CVE-2017-0898

2017-09-1500:00:00

ubuntu.com

6.4 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

9.1 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

0.013 Low

EPSS

Percentile

85.7%

JSON

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.

Bugs

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	backported patch in debian (2.3.3-1+deb9u2) package

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu14.04noarchruby1.9.1< 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.5UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchruby2.0< 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.10UNKNOWN
ubuntu17.10noarchruby2.3< 2.3.3-1ubuntu1.6UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchruby2.3< 2.3.1-2~16.04.10UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	14.04	noarch	ruby1.9.1	< 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.5	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	14.04	noarch	ruby2.0	< 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.10	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	17.10	noarch	ruby2.3	< 2.3.3-1ubuntu1.6	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	16.04	noarch	ruby2.3	< 2.3.1-2~16.04.10	UNKNOWN