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CVE-2017-0898
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-09-15T19:29:00.190 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:58:29.160

Summary

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.

Affected products

ruby-lang — ruby

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References

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