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Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CVE-2024-22051

High
9.8/10

Summary

In Ruby's commonmarker package versions prior to 0.23.4, uses "cmark-gfm" for rendering GitHub Flavored Markdown. An Integer Overflow in cmark-gfm's table row parsing may lead to heap memory corruption when parsing tables who's marker rows contain more than "UINT16_MAX" columns. The impact of this heap corruption ranges from Information Leak to Arbitrary Code Execution.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

The software performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound, when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This can introduce other weaknesses when the calculation is used for resource management or execution control.

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Advisory Timeline

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