Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-14064

Title: Ruby-Lang Ruby Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-14064.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Aug 31, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.91%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-14064: 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.

Impacted Vendors

yukihiro_matsumoto 1

ruby-lang 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100890 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039363 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3485 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0378 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0583 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0585 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13853 https://github.com/flori/json/commit/8f782fd8e181d9cfe9387ded43a5ca9692266b85 https://hackerone.com/reports/209949 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00012.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-18 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3685-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3966 https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/09/14/ruby-2-2-8-released/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/09/14/ruby-2-3-5-released/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100890 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039363 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042004 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3485 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0378 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0583 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0585 https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13853 https://github.com/flori/json/commit/8f782fd8e181d9cfe9387ded43a5ca9692266b85 https://hackerone.com/reports/209949 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00012.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-18 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3685-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3966 https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/09/14/ruby-2-2-8-released/ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/09/14/ruby-2-3-5-released/

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns