UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4164

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UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4164

Summary:

Details: Heap-based buffer overflow in Ruby 1.8, 1.9 before 1.9.3-p484, 2.0 before 2.0.0-p353, 2.1 before 2.1.0 preview2, and trunk before revision 43780 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a string that is converted to a floating point value, as demonstrated using (1) the to_f method or (2) JSON.parse.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4164, https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/heap-overflow-in-floating-point-parsing-cve-2013-4164/, https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/11/22/ruby-1-9-3-p484-is-released/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2035-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4164