{
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "id": "GHSA-m9xr-x5mq-4fp5",
  "modified": "2025-04-12T12:57:53Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T03:34:38Z",
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2015-7551"
  ],
  "details": "The Fiddle::Handle implementation in ext/fiddle/handle.c in Ruby before 2.0.0-p648, 2.1 before 2.1.8, and 2.2 before 2.2.4, as distributed in Apple OS X before 10.11.4 and other products, mishandles tainting, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted string, related to the DL module and the libffi library.  NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2009-5147 regression.",
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
    }
  ],
  "affected": [],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7551"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/339e11a7f178312d937b7c95dd3115ce7236597a"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0583"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-7551.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://puppet.com/security/cve/ruby-dec-2015-security-fixes"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://support.apple.com/HT206167"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/12/16/unsafe-tainted-string-usage-in-fiddle-and-dl-cve-2015-7551"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796344"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796551"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76060"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-20"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2016-03-24T01:59:00Z"
  }
}