CVE-2012-4466 (GCVE-0-2012-4466)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-04-25 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:35
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Date Public
2012-10-02 00:00
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}



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