ruby -- Unintentional file creation caused by inserting an illegal NUL character

The official ruby site reports:

A vulnerability was found that file creation routines can create
unintended files by strategically inserting NUL(s) in file paths.
This vulnerability has been reported as CVE-2012-4522.
Ruby can handle arbitrary binary patterns as Strings, including
NUL chars. On the other hand OSes and other libraries tend not.
They usually treat a NUL as an End of String mark. So to interface
them with Ruby, NUL chars should properly be avoided.
However methods like IO#open did not check the filename passed to
them, and just passed those strings to lower layer routines. This
led to create unintentional files.