CVE-2007-0469 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-0469 at MITRE

Description

The extract_files function in installer.rb in RubyGems before 0.9.1 does not check whether files exist before overwriting them, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code via crafted GEM packages.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	9.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 235110 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2007:004, published Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:01:48 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:19:27 2023