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CVE-2012-4466

N/A

Published: April 25, 2013 at 11:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:45 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorRuby

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 3%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ruby · Ruby Langrubygems

95%

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (9)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089554.html

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089887.html

x_refsource_MISC

Source: [email protected]

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi?view=revision&revision=37068

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA

Source: [email protected]

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:124

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/02/4

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST

Source: [email protected]

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/03/9

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2012/10/12/cve-2012-4464-cve-2012-4466/

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862614

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: NONE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-264

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