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GHSA-gm9g-777x-3fp6
GHSA-gm9g-777x-3fp6
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Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 17, 2022
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.
Timeline
- May 17, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089887.html url
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/10/12/cve-2012-4464-cve-2012-4466 url
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089554.html url
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124 url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/02/4 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4466 advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862614 url
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294 url
- http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068 url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/03/9 url