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Ruby Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2012-4464 - Vulnerability Database
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Ruby Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability - CVE-2012-4464

Medium
Reference: CVE-2012-4464
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4464
Title: Ruby Permissions Privileges and Access Controls Vulnerability
Overview:

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.