GHSA-2gw2-8q9w-cw8p

Ruby-ffi has a DLL loading issue

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2018-1000201

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	ffi	< 1.9.24	1.9.24

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

ruby-ffi version 1.9.23 and earlier has a DLL loading issue which can be hijacked on Windows OS, when a Symbol is used as DLL name instead of a String This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in v1.9.24 and later.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000201 advisory
https://github.com/ffi/ffi/commit/09e0c6076466b4383da7fa4e13f714311109945a web
https://github.com/ffi/ffi/commit/e0fe486df0e117ed67b0282b6ada04b7214ca05c web
https://github.com/ffi/ffi package
https://github.com/ffi/ffi/releases/tag/1.9.24 web
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/ffi/CVE-2018-1000201.yml web