873664 – (CVE-2016-2338) dev-lang/ruby: heap buffer overflow

Bug 873664 (CVE-2016-2338) - dev-lang/ruby: heap buffer overflow

Summary: dev-lang/ruby: heap buffer overflow

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	CVE-2016-2338

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

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Reported:	2022-09-30 15:17 UTC by John Helmert III
Modified:	2022-10-03 21:34 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description John Helmert III archtester

2022-09-30 15:17:15 UTC

CVE-2016-2338 (https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00032.html):

An exploitable heap overflow vulnerability exists in the Psych::Emitter start_document function of Ruby. In Psych::Emitter start_document function heap buffer "head" allocation is made based on tags array length. Specially constructed object passed as element of tags array can increase this array size after mentioned allocation and cause heap overflow.

So this is an issue made public all the way back in 2016, but of
course no apparent upstream report. Was this ever fixed upstream?

Comment 1 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2022-10-02 17:12:50 UTC

Looks to be fixed in https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/cc0313436160b735a3d41361cb5e3eeb10fcbdad which should be in ruby 2.4 and later, and possible 2.3.

The POC in the original bug report runs fine for me without crashes.

Comment 2 John Helmert III archtester

2022-10-03 21:34:46 UTC

Thanks!