Bug 199545

Summary: CVE-2006-3694 ruby safe-level bypass
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
Component: rubyAssignee: Akira TAGOH <tagoh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Bill Huang <bhuang>
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Version: 4.0CC: security-response-team
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OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: source=debian,reported=20060712,impact=moderate,public=20060711
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2006-0604 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Akira TAGOH 2006-07-20 09:49:15 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #199543 +++

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
2.
3.
  
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 RHEL2.1, 3 and 4 as well.

-- Additional comment from tagoh on 2006-07-20 05:47 EST --
Created an attachment (id=132736)
testcase

Comment 1 Akira TAGOH 2006-07-21 12:47:56 UTC
Fixed packages has been built.

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-07-27 20:33:50 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0604.html