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GHSA-gm9g-777x-3fp6

GHSA-gm9g-777x-3fp6 PUBLISHED

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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vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-gm9g-777x-3fp6

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  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-gm9g-777x-3fp6/fixes/registry"

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