CVE-2012-4464

Medium

Description

Ruby 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 (1) exc_to_s or (2) name_err_to_s API function, which marks the string as tainted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4466. NOTE: this issue might exist because of a CVE-2011-1005 regression.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductRuby
PublishedApr 25, 2013
First seenApr 25, 2013

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
ruby-lang ruby1.9.3, 2.0, 2.0.0—

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