CVE-2012-4466
Ruby 1.8.7 before patchlevel 371, 1.9.3 before patchlevel 286, and 2.0 before revision r37068 allows context-dependent attackers to bypas… (CVE-2012-4466)
noneEPSS 2.6%
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.
Metrics
Severity
none
50.68
no public PoC known
84.5 %
Critical — this CVE ranks in the top fifth of all CVEs scored today (rank ≥ 80%).
Published
2013-04-25 23:00 UTC
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Affected products
Products and version ranges extracted from the vendor/CERT advisory. A range like „<4.14.6“ implies the update recommendation „upgrade to 4.14.6 or later“.
ruby-lang
ruby
References & sources
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/02/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/03/9mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862614x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089554.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089887.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/10/12/cve-2012-4464-cve-2012-4466/x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068x_refsource_MISC
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294x_refsource_CONFIRM
IDCVE-2012-4466