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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published: 2017-09-15T19:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T01:36:46.258Z

Reserved: 2016-11-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-0898

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-09-15T19:29:00.190

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:03:51.040

Link: CVE-2017-0898

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-09-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-0898 - Bugzilla