CVE-2015-7551 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2015-7551

The Fiddle::Handle implementation in ext/fiddle/handle.c in Ruby before 2.0.0-p648, 2.1...

8.4 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

The Fiddle::Handle implementation in ext/fiddle/handle.c in Ruby before 2.0.0-p648, 2.1 before 2.1.8, and 2.2 before 2.2.4, as distributed in Apple OS X before 10.11.4 and other products, mishandles tainting, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted string, related to the DL module and the libffi library. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-5147 regression.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

apple

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Affected Software

mac os x, ruby

Vulnerable Versions:

0, 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.5, 2.1.6, 2.1.7, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3

Timeline

Official Publish: March 24th, 2016

Last Modified: August 6th, 2024

Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.