ubuntu · CVE-2016-2336

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-01-06 21:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:57:09 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2336 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ruby2.3), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety): DNE 2, not-affected 2, needs-triage 1.

Description:

Type confusion exists in two methods of Ruby's WIN32OLE class, ole_invoke and ole_query_interface. Attacker passing different type of object than this assumed by developers can cause arbitrary code execution.

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