CVE-2017-0898

Ruby, en versiones anteriores a la 2.4.2, 2.3.5 y 2.2.8, es vulnerable a una cadena de formato maliciosa qe contiene un especificador (*) con un valor grande negativo. Esta situación puede provocar un desbordamiento de búfer, provocando una corrupción de la memoria dinámica (heap) o una fuga de información de dicha memoria dinámica.

A buffer underflow was found in ruby's sprintf function. An attacker, with ability to control its format string parameter, could send a specially crafted string that would disclose heap memory or crash the interpreter.

Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It has features to process text files and to perform system management tasks. Security Fix: It was discovered that the Net::FTP module did not properly process filenames in combination with certain operations. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary commands by setting up a malicious FTP server and tricking a user or Ruby application into downloading files with specially crafted names using the Net::FTP module.