CVE-2013-2065
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.4
Description
(1) DL and (2) Fiddle in Ruby 1.9 before 1.9.3 patchlevel 426, and 2.0 before 2.0.0 patchlevel 195, do not perform taint checking for native functions, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass intended $SAFE level restrictions.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| suse | 12.2 | affected | |
| suse | 12.3 | affected | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107064.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107098.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107120.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00057.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2035-1
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-2065
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/05/14/taint-bypass-dl-fiddle-cve-2013-2065/
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107064.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107098.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107120.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00057.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2035-1
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-2065
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/05/14/taint-bypass-dl-fiddle-cve-2013-2065/
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.