Security Advisory

CVE-2016-2339

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-01-06 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 23:24:48
Assigner certcc
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

An exploitable heap overflow vulnerability exists in the Fiddle::Function.new "initialize" function functionality of Ruby. In Fiddle::Function.new "initialize" heap buffer "arg_types" allocation is made based on args array length. Specially constructed object passed as element of args array can increase this array size after mentioned allocation and cause heap overflow.