Bug 199543

Summary: ruby safe-level bypass
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
Component: rubyAssignee: Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Bill Huang <bhuang>
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Description Akira TAGOH 2006-07-20 09:47:14 UTC
Description of problem:
A Vulneerability has been reported in Ruby, which can be exploited by malicious
people to bypass certain security-level restrictions.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
all versions of Ruby, such as 1.6.x and 1.8.x without any exceptions.

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.ruby alias_jvn83768862.patch
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Actual results:
no exceptions.

Expected results:
$ ruby alias_jvn83768862.patch
alias_jvn83768862.patch:9:in `p': calling insecure method: inspect (SecurityError)
        from alias_jvn83768862.patch:9


Additional info:
thia affects to FC4 and FC5 as well.

Comment 1 Akira TAGOH 2006-07-20 09:47:14 UTC
Created attachment 132736 [details]
testcase

Comment 2 Akira TAGOH 2006-07-20 10:57:12 UTC
obviously .patch is a typo. it should be s/.patch/.rb/, but anyway ;)

Comment 3 Akira TAGOH 2006-07-21 11:57:25 UTC
Fixed in:
devel - 1.8.4-11.fc6
FC-5  - 1.8.4-8.fc5
FC-4  - 1.8.4-3.fc4

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2006-07-22 19:07:07 UTC
ruby-1.8.4-8.fc5 has been pushed for fc5, which should resolve this issue.  If these problems are still present in this version, then please make note of it in this bug report.