CVE-2017-0898

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-0898
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-0898.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-0898
Downstream
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DSA (1)
MGASA (1)
RHSA (4)
SUSE (1)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
Published
2017-09-15T19:29:00Z
Modified
2026-10-15T10:46:24Z
Severity
  • 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ruby/ruby

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ruby/ruby
Events
Introduced
7393bf6a5cfff63683f36535e293caaa0d4c5be0
Last Affected
820605ba3c10b9f4dafc4e5d6e09765b8b31cbea
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.2.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.2.1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.1"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.2.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.2.3"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.3"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.2.4"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.4"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.2.5"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.5"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.2.6"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.6"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.2.7"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.7"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.3.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.3.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.3.1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.3.1"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.3.2"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.3.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.3.3"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.3.3"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.3.4"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.3.4"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.4.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.4.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range": [
                {
                    "introduced": "2.4.1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.4.1"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.2.0
2.2.1
2.2.2
2.2.3
2.2.4
2.2.5
2.2.6
2.2.7
2.3.0
2.3.1
2.3.2
2.3.3
2.3.4
2.4.0
2.4.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-0898.json"