GHSA-w8mr-4m5w-x8wv

GHSA-w8mr-4m5w-x8wv PUBLISHED

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 1, 2022

Ruby 1.6.x up to 1.6.8, 1.8.x up to 1.8.2, and 1.9.0 development up to 2005-09-01 allows attackers to bypass safe level and taint flag protections and execute disallowed code when Ruby processes a program through standard input (stdin).

Timeline

May 1, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (4 in total, the first dated here)
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory (5 in total, the first dated here)

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References

http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2362914675/index.html url
http://secunia.com/advisories/17094 url
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/59 url
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-05.xml url
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14909 url
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22360 url
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html url
http://secunia.com/advisories/16904 url
http://secunia.com/advisories/19130 url
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:191 url
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2337 advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10564 url
http://secunia.com/advisories/17098 url
http://secunia.com/advisories/17129 url
http://secunia.com/advisories/17147 url
http://secunia.com/advisories/17285 url
http://secunia.com/advisories/20077 url
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html url
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-799.html url
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/20051003.html url

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