Upstream information

CVE-2012-4464 at MITRE

Description

Ruby 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 (1) exc_to_s or (2) name_err_to_s API function, which marks the string as tainted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4466. NOTE: this issue might exist because of a CVE-2011-1005 regression.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail 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 entry: 783511 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

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

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 13:06:58 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:18:15 2025