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CVE-2014-4975

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-4975 is an off-by-one error in the Ruby programming language (versions 1.9.3 and earlier, and 2.x through 2.1.2) that can lead to a denial of service via a stack-based buffer overflow. This vulnerability, affecting products like Debian, Red Hat, and Canonical, has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required. While it can cause a segmentation fault, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:p0:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.0.0:p195:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.89%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0389 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (17)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ruby-0:2.0.0.353-22.el7_0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: ruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUSFixed in: ruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUSFixed in: ruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: ruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: ruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: ruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: ruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ruby193-ruby-0:1.9.3.484-50.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ruby200-ruby-0:2.0.0.353-24.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: mingw-ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: ruby193-ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Enterprise 1Fixed in: ruby193-ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 3Fixed in: ruby193-ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4Fixed in: ruby193-ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: ruby193-ruby

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-4975Low

ruby: off-by-one stack-based buffer overflow in the encodes() function

Jul 9, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0472.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1912.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1913.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1914.html
Third Party Advisory
bugs.ruby-lang.org / issues/10019
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/94706
svn.ruby-lang.org / cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3157
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Broken Link
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/07/09/13
Mailing List
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/68474
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2397-1
Third Party Advisory