suse · CVE-2016-2339

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:39:34 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 17:58:59 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2339 severity moderate: SUSE including 26 source package names (4.0.0:libruby2_1-2_1-2.1.9-15.1, 4.0.0:ruby2.1-2.1.9-15.1, …), 193 product×package rows across 67 product lines (Container caasp/v4/velum, HPE Helion OpenStack 8, … (67 product lines)): Fixed 167, Known Not Affected 26.

Description:

An exploitable heap overflow vulnerability exists in the Fiddle::Function.new "initialize" function functionality of Ruby. In Fiddle::Function.new "initialize" heap buffer "arg_types" allocation is made based on args array length. Specially constructed object passed as element of args array can increase this array size after mentioned allocation and cause heap overflow.

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