Bug 169577

Summary:	CAN-2005-2337 ruby safe-level mode bypass
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	ruby	Assignee:	Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Bill Huang <bhuang>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://secunia.com/advisories/16904/
Whiteboard:	impact=moderate,source=secunia,public=20050923
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-09-29 19:55:03 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #169575 +++

Secunia has reported this issue:

A vulnerability has been reported in Ruby, which can be exploited by malicious
people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is due in an error in "eval.c" in enforcing safe-level
protections. This can be exploited to execute certain insecure methods.

-- Additional comment from bressers on 2005-09-29 15:49 EST --
Created an attachment (id=119436)
Patch from upstream

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-09-29 19:56:53 UTC

Sorry, it seems we're already running 1.8.3 in FC3 and FC4.