Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 19, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-11465
CVE-2017-11465
Description
The parser_yyerror function in the UTF-8 parser in Ruby 2.4.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write or read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Ruby script, related to the parser_tokadd_utf8 function in parse.y. NOTE: this might have security relevance as a bypass of a $SAFE protection mechanism.
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References
2- bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13742nvdIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
- bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-trunk/repository/revisions/59344nvdIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
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