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CVE-2015-7551

Public on 2016-01-18
Modified on 2016-01-18
Description

The Fiddle::Handle implementation in ext/fiddle/handle.c in Ruby before 2.0.0-p648, 2.1 before 2.1.8, and 2.2 before 2.2.4, as distributed in Apple OS X before 10.11.4 and other products, mishandles tainting, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted string, related to the DL module and the libffi library. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-5147 regression.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
2.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 ruby19 2016-01-18 11:00 ALAS-2016-632
Amazon Linux 1 ruby20 2016-01-18 11:00 ALAS-2016-632
Amazon Linux 1 ruby21 2016-01-18 11:00 ALAS-2016-632
Amazon Linux 1 ruby22 2016-01-18 11:00 ALAS-2016-632

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 8.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H