CVE-2021-41816 (GCVE-0-2021-41816)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-02-06 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:22
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Summary
CGI.escape_html in Ruby before 2.7.5 and 3.x before 3.0.3 has an integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow via a long string on platforms (such as Windows) where size_t and long have different numbers of bytes. This also affects the CGI gem before 0.3.1 for Ruby.
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