CVE-2016-2337 (GCVE-0-2016-2337)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-01-06 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 23:24
Severity ?
CWE
  • type confusion
Summary
Type confusion exists in _cancel_eval Ruby's TclTkIp class method. Attacker passing different type of object than String as "retval" argument can cause arbitrary code execution.
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Impacted products
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Ruby Ruby Version: 2.3.0 dev
Version: 2.2.2
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