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CVE-2022-28739

ruby: Buffer overrun in String-to-Float conversion

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.2

CVSS 3.1

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Published · April 14, 2022

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

A buffer overrun vulnerability was found in Ruby. The issue occurs in a conversion algorithm from a String to a Float that causes process termination due to a segmentation fault, but under limited circumstances. This flaw may cause an illegal memory read.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read