CVE-2008-2664 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-2664 at MITRE

Description

The rb_str_format function in Ruby 1.8.4 and earlier, 1.8.5 before 1.8.5-p231, 1.8.6 before 1.8.6-p230, 1.8.7 before 1.8.7-p22, and 1.9.0 before 1.9.0-2 allows context-dependent attackers to trigger memory corruption via unspecified vectors related to alloca, a different issue than CVE-2008-2662, CVE-2008-2663, and CVE-2008-2725. NOTE: as of 20080624, there has been inconsistent usage of multiple CVE identifiers related to Ruby. The CVE description should be regarded as authoritative, although it is likely to change.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 383299 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 397346 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:017, published Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 15:59:24 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:26:35 2023