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CVE-2016-2338

Fixed in a distro release EPSS 5%

An exploitable heap overflow vulnerability exists in the Psych::Emitter start_document function of Ruby. In Psych::Emitter start_document function heap buffer "head" 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.

Published 2020-02-14 · CVE record · OSV

Products: ruby-lang ruby, debian_linux

Distro releases

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux 2ruby2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.17
Amazon Linux 2ruby-devel2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.17
Amazon Linux 2ruby-doc2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.17
Amazon Linux 2ruby-irb2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.17
Amazon Linux 2ruby-libs2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.17
Amazon Linux 2ruby-tcltk2.0.0.648-36.amzn2.0.17
Amazon Linux 2rubygem-bigdecimal1.2.0-36.amzn2.0.17
Amazon Linux 2rubygem-io-console0.4.2-36.amzn2.0.17
Amazon Linux 2rubygem-json1.7.7-36.amzn2.0.17
Amazon Linux 2rubygem-minitest4.3.2-36.amzn2.0.17
Amazon Linux 2rubygem-psych2.0.0-36.amzn2.0.17
Amazon Linux 2rubygem-rake0.9.6-36.amzn2.0.17
Amazon Linux 2rubygem-rdoc4.0.0-36.amzn2.0.17
Amazon Linux 2rubygems2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.17
Amazon Linux 2rubygems-devel2.0.14.1-36.amzn2.0.17
Debian 8ruby2.12.1.5-2+deb8u9