CVE-2012-4466

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Ruby 1.8.7 before patchlevel 371, 1.9.3 before patchlevel 286, and 2.0 before revision r37068 allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe-level restrictions and modify untainted strings via the name_err_mesg_to_str API function, which marks the string as tainted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1005.

Ruby 1.8.7 before patchlevel 371, 1.9.3 before patchlevel 286, and 2.0 before revision r37068 allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe-level restrictions and modify untainted strings via the name_err_mesg_to_str API function, which marks the string as tainted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1005.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-04-25 23:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2014-02-12 04:39:00

Affected Software

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p160

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p17

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p173

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p174

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p22

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p248

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p249

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p299

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p301

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p302

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p330

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p334

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p352

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p357

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p358

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p370

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p71

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-p72

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-preview1

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-preview2

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-preview3

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7-preview4

1.8.7

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3

1.9.3

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p0

1.9.3

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p125

1.9.3

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p194

1.9.3

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0

2.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0-p0

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0-preview1

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0-preview2

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0 rc1

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0 rc2

2.0.0

References

FEDORA-2012-15376

FEDORA-2012-15395

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068

MDVSA-2013:124

[oss-security] 20121002 CVE Request: Ruby safe level bypasses

[oss-security] 20121003 Re: CVE Request: Ruby safe level bypasses

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/10/12/cve-2012-4464-cve-2012-4466/

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862614

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294

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