9.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2016-2337

Published: 06/01/2017 Updated: 28/08/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

It exists that Ruby DL::dlopen incorrectly handled opening libraries. An attacker could possibly use this issue to open libraries with tainted names. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2009-5147)

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ruby-lang ruby 2.2.2

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Debian Bug report logs - #851161 ruby21: CVE-2016-2337 CVE-2016-2339 Package: ruby21; Maintainer for ruby21 is Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debianorg>; Source for ruby21 is src:ruby21 (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:15:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: ...
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