Upstream information

CVE-2026-79590 at MITRE

Description

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the Prism parser component of mruby 4.0.0. An attacker can provide a specially crafted Ruby source file that triggers the parser to pass a NULL pointer to nonnull string handling functions, resulting in undefined behavior and application crash.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1280059 [NEW]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Sep 11 15:39:43 2026
CVE page last modified: Fri Sep 11 17:42:58 2026