CVE-2013-4164
At a glance
- Severity
- Not available
- EPSS
- EPSS 34.97 % · percentile 98 (2026-10-27)
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- redhat
- NVD status
- Modified
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.
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 2.0 | MEDIUM 6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
Weaknesses (CWE)
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2013-4089
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2013-4164
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2014-AVI-436 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Apple · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2014-AVI-235 — Vulnérabilité dans Apple OS X Server · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2014-AVI-231 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Apple OS X Mavericks · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2014-AVI-201 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Apple · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2014-AVI-112 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Oracle Solaris · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTA-2013-AVI-687 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Puppet · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTA-2013-AVI-647 — Vulnérabilité dans Ruby · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.1:preview1:*:*:*:*:*:*
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| affected n/a |
References
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4164
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-10/0103.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00028.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2035-1
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2014-04/0134.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0215.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00009.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1763.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1764.html
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-2-0-0-p353-is-released
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63873
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-in-floating-point-parsing-cve-2013-4164
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1767.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00027.html
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT6536
- http://osvdb.org/100113
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2810
- http://secunia.com/advisories/57376
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-1-9-3-p484-is-released
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2809
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55787
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |