CVE-2017-11465

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-11465
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-11465.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-11465
Published
2017-07-19T21:29:00.243Z
Modified
2025-11-19T17:35:33.941602Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The parseryyerror function in the UTF-8 parser in Ruby 2.4.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write or read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Ruby script, related to the parsertokadd_utf8 function in parse.y. NOTE: this might have security relevance as a bypass of a $SAFE protection mechanism.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ruby/ruby

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ruby/ruby
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-11465.json"