Security Advisory

CVE-2014-4975

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Vulnerability Description

Off-by-one error in the encodes function in pack.c in Ruby 1.9.3 and earlier, and 2.x through 2.1.2, when using certain format string specifiers, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via vectors that trigger a stack-based buffer overflow.
Published Date November 15, 2014
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory