CVE-2012-4464
First published: Wed Oct 03 2012(Updated: )
Originally, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier <a href="https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1005">CVE-2011-1005</a> to the following vulnerability: The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-420, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-330, and 1.8.8dev allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the Exception#to_s method, as demonstrated by changing an intended pathname. Later it was reported: [1] <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689075">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689075</a> [2] <a href="http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/02/4">http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/02/4</a> that upstream ruby 1.9.1 and ruby 1.9.3 versions are also vulnerable to this flaw. Relevant upstream patch: [3] <a href="http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068">http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068</a>
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| redhat/ruby | <1.9.3 | 1.9.3 |
| Ruby | =1.9.3 | |
| Ruby | =1.9.3-p0 | |
| Ruby | =1.9.3-p125 | |
| Ruby | =1.9.3-p194 | |
| Ruby | =2.0 | |
| Ruby | =2.0.0 | |
| Ruby | =2.0.0-p0 | |
| Ruby | =2.0.0-preview1 | |
| Ruby | =2.0.0-preview2 | |
| Ruby | =2.0.0-rc1 | |
| Ruby | =2.0.0-rc2 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089554.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089887.html
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/02/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/03/9
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/10/12/cve-2012-4464-cve-2012-4466/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862598
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1005
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689075
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/02/18/exception-methods-can-bypass-safe/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=678920
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4464
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4466
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q4/10
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q4/13
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=862906
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=862907
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0582.html
- collector/redhat-bugzilla
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- version/ruby/1.9.3
- version/ruby/1.9.3-p0
- version/ruby/1.9.3-p125
- version/ruby/1.9.3-p194
- version/ruby/2.0
- version/ruby/2.0.0
- version/ruby/2.0.0-p0
- version/ruby/2.0.0-preview1
- version/ruby/2.0.0-preview2
- version/ruby/2.0.0-rc1
- version/ruby/2.0.0-rc2