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.

Remediation

References

CVE-2012-4466

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2012-4466 CWE-264

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities