Published: 02/03/2011 Updated: 13/08/2013

CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 445

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.6 up to and including 1.8.6-420, 1.8.7 up to and including 1.8.7-330, and 1.8.8dev allows context-dependent malicious users to modify strings via the Exception#to_s method, as demonstrated by changing an intended pathname.

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ruby-lang ruby 1.8.6

Synopsis Moderate: ruby security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated ruby packages that fix two security issues are now available forRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact Common Vulnerability Scoring ...

Synopsis Moderate: ruby security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated ruby packages that fix two security issues and one bug are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact Commo ...

Several security issues were fixed in ruby18 ...

Several security issues were fixed in ruby191 ...

It was discovered that Ruby's REXML library did not properly restrict XML entity expansion An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service by tricking a Ruby application using REXML to read text nodes from specially-crafted XML content, which will result in REXML consuming large amounts of system memory (CVE-2013-1821) It was found t ...

CWE-264 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/21/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/21/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46458 http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/02/18/exception-methods-can-bypass-safe/https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678920 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054422.html http://secunia.com/advisories/43420 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054436.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0539 http://osvdb.org/70957 http://secunia.com/advisories/43573 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0910.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0908.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0909.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:098 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:097 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0612 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1377-1/

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