Upstream information

CVE-2012-4466 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 783525 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 876588 [RESOLVED / DUPLICATE]

SUSE Security Advisories:

    openSUSE-SU-2012:1443-1 openSUSE-SU-2013:0376-1

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
  • ruby-devel >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-doc-html >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-doc-ri >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-examples >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-test-suite >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-tk >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA ruby-devel-1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3
  • ruby >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.9.1
  • ruby-doc-html >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.9.1
  • ruby-tk >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.9.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 GA ruby-1.8.7.p357-0.9.9.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  • ruby >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-devel >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-doc-html >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-doc-ri >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-examples >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-test-suite >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
  • ruby-tk >= 1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 GA ruby-1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 GA ruby-devel-1.8.7.p357-0.9.17.1


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP2 ruby Released
SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3 ruby Released
SUSE Lifecycle Management Server 1.3 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for SAP Enterprise Search ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 LTSS ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS ruby Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP1 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP2 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Business All-in-One 11 SP1 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 ruby Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 ruby Released
SUSE Studio Extension for System z 1.2 ruby Released
SUSE Studio Onsite 1.3 ruby Released
WebYaST for SLE-11 ruby Released


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 13:07:00 2013
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 7 13:05:42 2023