CVE-2014-4975

Off-by-one error in the encodes function in pack.c in Ruby 1.9.3 and earlier, and 2.x through 2.1.2, when using certain format string specifiers, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via vectors that trigger a stack-based buffer overflow.

This issue did not affect the versions of ruby as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

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