Description
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.
Published: 2017-09-15
Score: 9.1 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1113-1 ruby1.8 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1114-1 ruby1.9.1 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1421-1 ruby2.1 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4031-1 ruby2.3 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-1251 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3439-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3685-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
History

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00658}

epss

{'score': 0.0071}


Subscriptions

Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Software Collections
Ruby-lang Ruby
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published:

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

Reserved: 2016-11-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-0898

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-0898

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2017-0898 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses