Format String Vulnerability in Ruby

CVE-2017-0898 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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