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
Related
Published
2017-09-15T19:29:00.190Z
Modified
2026-04-09T04:56:51.153407Z
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
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
7393bf6a5cfff63683f36535e293caaa0d4c5be0
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
10bc9b85cba61af65dea858a2952ae04126a5d4d
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
a9721a259665149b1b9ff0beabcf5f8dc0136120
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
b8c7ea548aa8fb5f3c399a00ce877d3431c27a01
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
9081c2c61ac9f7f9bdcbf054f33b2dc42740e85f
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
449169fd8cfe4253381c40f595097ed50932bdae
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
1c091e34809d91cb7e9ab4518a99e07f30b7fbd1
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
530165c2948c3eed741db5659f7b937270caa46a
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
d40ea2afa6ff5a6e5befcf342fb7b6dc58796b20
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
5827d8e887d881eb3a6e6ea7410590261c90545f
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
9d222264d5e6a2dcac5aceafb5742a65e53dc513
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
c91cb76f8d84b2963f6ede2ef445ad46a6104216
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
4bd69735af901266ec21486243fc206030caa6b9
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
d4bb726b713658f56e630b6cf817a0155b6f390e
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
820605ba3c10b9f4dafc4e5d6e09765b8b31cbea
Database specific 
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            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.3"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.4"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.5"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.6"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.7"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.3.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.3.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.3.2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.3.3"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.3.4"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.4.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.4.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
v1_0_r2
v2_2_0
v2_2_0_rc1
v2_2_1
v2_2_2
v2_2_3
v2_2_4
v2_2_5
v2_2_6
v2_2_7
v2_3_0
v2_3_1
v2_3_2
v2_3_3
v2_3_4
v2_4_0
v2_4_1

Database specific

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