CVE-2012-4481

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.7 allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the NameError#to_s method when operating on Ruby objects. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005.

The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.7 allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the NameError#to_s method when operating on Ruby objects. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2013-05-02 14:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2014-02-12 04:39:00

Affected Software

ruby-lang Ruby 1.8.7

1.8.7

References

RHSA-2013:0129

RHSA-2013:0612

MDVSA-2013:124

[oss-security] 20121005 Re: CVE Request -- ruby (1.8.x with patched CVE-2011-1005): Incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005 for NameError#to_s method when used on objects

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863484

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

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