CVE-2012-4481
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.7 allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the NameError#to_s method when operating on Ruby objects. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| ruby-lang | ruby | 1.8.7 | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4481.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0129.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0612.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/05/4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863484
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0294
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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