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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-12248

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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31 Oct 2026, 12:16 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-12248

core-osv · Original source

Published 12 Jun 2018, 14:29 UTC

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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