Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900726
Category:	Buffer overflow
Title:	Ruby Interpreter Heap Overflow Vulnerability (Dec 2009) - Linux
Summary:	Ruby Interpreter is prone to a heap overflow vulnerability.
Description:	Summary: Ruby Interpreter is prone to a heap overflow vulnerability. Vulnerability Insight: The flaw is due to improper sanitization check while processing user supplied input data to the buffer inside 'String#ljust', 'String#center' and 'String#rjust' methods. Vulnerability Impact: Successful exploitation will let the attacker execute arbitrary code, corrupt the heap area to execute the crafted malicious shellcode into the system registers to take control over the remote machine. Affected Software/OS: Ruby Interpreter version 1.9.1 before 1.9.1 Patchlevel 376. Solution: Update to 1.9.1-p376 or later. CVSS Score: 10.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-4124 BugTraq ID: 37278 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37278 http://www.osvdb.org/60880 http://secunia.com/advisories/37660 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3471 XForce ISS Database: ruby-rbstrjustify-bo(54674) https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54674
Copyright	Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG

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