Security Advisory
CVE-2014-4975
5
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