Bug 169577 - CAN-2005-2337 ruby safe-level mode bypass
Summary: CAN-2005-2337 ruby safe-level mode bypass
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ruby
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Akira TAGOH
QA Contact: Bill Huang
URL: http://secunia.com/advisories/16904/
Whiteboard: impact=moderate,source=secunia,public...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-29 19:55 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-09-29 19:56:53 UTC
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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.
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