CVE-2011-0188

La función VpMemAlloc en bigdecimal.c en la clase BigDecimal en Ruby v1.9.2-P136 y anteriores, tal como se utiliza en Apple Mac OS X antes de vv10.6.7 y en otras plataformas, no asigna memoria adecuadamente, lo que permite a atacantes dependientes de contexto ejecutar código de su elección o causar una denegación de servicio (caída de aplicación) a través de vectores que impliquen la creación de un valor BigDecimal grande dentro de un proceso de 64 bits, relacionado con un "fallo de truncado de entero".

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to do system management tasks. A flaw was found in the way large amounts of memory were allocated on 64-bit systems when using the BigDecimal class. A context-dependent attacker could use this flaw to cause memory corruption, causing a Ruby application that uses the BigDecimal class to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. This issue did not affect 32-bit systems. It was found that WEBrick did not filter terminal escape sequences from its log files. A remote attacker could use specially-crafted HTTP requests to inject terminal escape sequences into the WEBrick log files. If a victim viewed the log files with a terminal emulator, it could result in control characters being executed with the privileges of that user. Various other issues were also addressed.