VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-7551

high
Published 2016-03-24 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
8.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.4

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
80%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
macos macOS Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ruby ruby-langruby{"endIncluding":"2.0.0-p647"}
ruby ruby-langruby2.1.0
ruby ruby-langruby2.1.1
ruby ruby-langruby2.1.2
ruby ruby-langruby2.1.3
ruby ruby-langruby2.1.4
ruby ruby-langruby2.1.5
ruby ruby-langruby2.1.6
ruby ruby-langruby2.1.7
ruby ruby-langruby2.2.0
ruby ruby-langruby2.2.1
ruby ruby-langruby2.2.2
ruby ruby-langruby2.2.3

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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