Description

The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.7 allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the NameError#to_s method when operating on Ruby objects. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005.

Remediation

References

CVE-2012-4481

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Severity

Medium

Classification

CVE-2012-4481 CWE-264

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities