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CVE-2017-11465

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.8)—

The parser_yyerror function in the UTF-8 parser in Ruby 2.4.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write or read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Ruby script, related to the parser_tokadd_utf8 function in parse.y. NOTE: this might have security relevance as a bypass of a $SAFE protection mechanism.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Ruby-lang — Ruby

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