FKIE_CVE-2012-4466

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2013-04-25 23:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:45
Severity
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089554.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089887.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/02/4
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/03/9
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/10/12/cve-2012-4464-cve-2012-4466/Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862614
secalert@redhat.comhttps://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089554.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089887.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068
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/2012/10/02/4
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/03/9
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/10/12/cve-2012-4464-cve-2012-4466/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862614
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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ruby-lang ruby 2.0.0
ruby-lang ruby 2.0.0
ruby-lang ruby 2.0.0
ruby-lang ruby 2.0.0
ruby-lang ruby 2.0.0
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