CVE-2018-1000201

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-1000201
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-22 18:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-08-13 18:55:00 UTC
Descriptionruby-ffi version 1.9.23 and earlier has a DLL loading issue which can be hijacked on Windows OS, when a Symbol is used as DLL name instead of a String This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in v1.9.24 and later.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-426

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Application Ruby-ffi Project Ruby-ffi All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Don't search in hardcoded paths on Windows · ffi/ffi@09e0c60 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Don't treat Symbol args different to Strings in ffi_lib · ffi/ffi@e0fe486 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
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