Gentoo Linux: CVE-2012-4481: Ruby: Denial of service
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
05/02/2013
07/25/2018
10/30/2017
02/14/2023
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.
Solution(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-ruby
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