CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4481
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• ruby-lang ruby 1.8.7
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0129.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0612.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/4 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863484 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294 wiki.mageia.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0129.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0612.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/4 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863484 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294 wiki.mageia.org