CVE-2012-4466
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Apr 25, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 21, 2012
Description
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.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20121002 CVE Request: Ruby safe level bypassesmailing-list
- MDVSA-2013:124vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20121003 Re: CVE Request: Ruby safe level bypassesmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862614
- FEDORA-2012-15376vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2012-15395vendor-advisory
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/10/12/cve-2012-4464-cve-2012-4466/
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294
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