CVE-2013-4164

MediumCVSS 6.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Ruby 1.8, 1.9 before 1.9.3-p484, 2.0 before 2.0.0-p353, 2.1 before 2.1.0 preview2, and trunk before revision 43780 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a string that is converted to a floating point value, as demonstrated using (1) the to_f method or (2) JSON.parse.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.8/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Nov 23, 2013
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2013-4164: Medium severity, CVSS 6.8 | Vulnix