This CVE name corresponds to:
Entered | Topic |
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2012-11-01 | ruby -- $SAFE escaping vulnerability about Exception#to_s/NameError#to_s |
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Type | Candidate |
Name | CVE-2012-4466 |
Phase | Assigned(20120821) |
Ruby 1.8.7 before patchlevel 371, 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 name_err_mesg_to_str API function, which marks the string as tainted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1005.
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