CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4466
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-04-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
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.
Affected configurations
• ruby-lang ruby 1.8.7
• ruby-lang ruby 1.9.3
• ruby-lang ruby 2.0
• ruby-lang ruby 2.0.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089554.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089887.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068 svn.ruby-lang.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/02/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/03/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/10/12/cve-2012-4464-cve-2012-4466/ Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862614 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294 wiki.mageia.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089554.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089887.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068 svn.ruby-lang.org
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/02/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/03/9 www.openwall.com
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/10/12/cve-2012-4464-cve-2012-4466/ Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862614 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294 wiki.mageia.org