CVE-2017-14064

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14064
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14064.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-14064
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-08-31T17:29:00Z
Modified
2025-11-12T14:57:03.220164Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Ruby through 2.2.7, 2.3.x through 2.3.4, and 2.4.x through 2.4.1 can expose arbitrary memory during a JSON.generate call. The issues lies in using strdup in ext/json/ext/generator/generator.c, which will stop after encountering a '\0' byte, returning a pointer to a string of length zero, which is not the length stored in space_len.

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

Git / github.com/ruby/json

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ruby/json
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
8f782fd8e181d9cfe9387ded43a5ca9692266b85

Affected versions

v1.*

v1.1.8
v1.2.0
v1.2.1
v1.2.2
v1.2.3
v1.4.0
v1.4.1
v1.4.2
v1.4.3
v1.4.4
v1.4.4-java
v1.4.5
v1.4.6
v1.5.0
v1.5.1
v1.5.2
v1.5.3
v1.5.4
v1.6.0
v1.6.1
v1.6.2
v1.6.3
v1.6.4
v1.6.5
v1.6.6
v1.6.7
v1.7.0
v1.7.1
v1.7.2
v1.7.3
v1.7.4
v1.7.5
v1.7.6
v1.7.7
v1.8.0
v1.8.1
v1.8.2
v1.8.3

v2.*

v2.0.0
v2.0.1
v2.0.2

Database specific

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