Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 6, 2017· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2016-2337

Description

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.

Affected products

Ruby/Rubyv5
Range: 2.3.0 dev
Tcl/Tcl/Tkv5
Range: 8.6 or later

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0031/nvdExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
www.securityfocus.com/bid/91233nvd
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00028.htmlnvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-18nvd

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