CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-2336

Published: Jan 06, 2017 | Modified: Jan 11, 2017

CVSS 3.x

9.8

CRITICAL

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

7.5 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

8.1 IMPORTANT

Ubuntu

MEDIUM

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2336
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Ruby	Ruby-lang	2.2.2 (including)	2.2.2 (including)
Ruby	Ruby-lang	2.3.0 (including)	2.3.0 (including)

References

http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0029/

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