CVE-2012-4481
First published: Fri Oct 05 2012(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Ruby-lang Ruby | =1.8.7 |
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Reference Links
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0129.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0612.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863484
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1005
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?revision=30903&view=revision
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4464
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4466
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/2
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0129.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0612.html
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