A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the JSON extension of ruby. An attacker with the ability to pass a specially crafted JSON input to the extension could use this flaw to expose the interpreter's heap memory.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux 1 | ruby22 | 2017-10-02 17:01 | ALAS-2017-906 |
Amazon Linux 1 | ruby23 | 2017-10-02 17:01 | ALAS-2017-906 |
Amazon Linux 1 | ruby24 | 2017-10-26 17:01 | ALAS-2017-915 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |