High
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in mruby 1.4.1. There is a heap-based buffer over-read associated with OP_ENTER because mrbgems/mruby-fiber/src/fiber.c does not extend the stack in cases of many arguments to fiber.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-12248
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:16 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in mruby 1.4.1. There is a heap-based buffer over-read associated with OP_ENTER because mrbgems/mruby-fiber/src/fiber.c does not extend the stack in cases of many arguments to fiber.
osv:CVE-2018-12248
Complete source record
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