CVE-2012-4481
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2013-05-02 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 20:35
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0129.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0612.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/4
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863484
secalert@redhat.comhttps://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0129.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0612.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/4
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863484
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294
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