MiracleLinux 4 : ruby-1.8.7.352-10.AXS4 (AXSA:2013-281:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2013-281:01 advisory. Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do syste...

WEBrick Improper Input Validation vulnerability

WEBrick 1.3.1 in Ruby 1.8.6 through patchlevel 383, 1.8.7 through patchlevel 248, 1.8.8dev, 1.9.1 through patchlevel 376, and 1.9.2dev writes data to a log file without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow remote attackers to modify a window's title, or possibly execute arbitrar...

Remote Code Execution (RCE) Via Directory Traversal

hiera is vulnerable to directory traversal and potential remote code execution RCE. The library when using Ruby 1.8.7 uses relative pathing for its directories. This allows a malicious user to load arbitrary ruby files whose names correspond to the files that hiera is trying to load...

[SSLSmart] Smart SSL Cipher Enumeration

SSLSmart is a highly flexible and interactive tool aimed at improving efficiency and reducing false positives during SSL testing. A number of tools allow users to test for supported SSL ciphers suites, but most only provide testers with a fixed set of cipher suites. Further testing is performed b...

Amazon Linux AMI : ruby (ALAS-2013-173)

It was discovered that Ruby's REXML library did not properly restrict XML entity expansion. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service by tricking a Ruby application using REXML to read text nodes from specially crafted XML content, which will result in REXML consuming large...

CVE-2012-4481

The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.7 allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the NameErrortos method when operating on Ruby objects. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005...

Design/Logic Flaw

The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.7 allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the NameErrortos method when operating on Ruby objects. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005...

ruby security update

1.8.7.352-10 - escaping vulnerability about Exceptiontos / NameErrortos ruby-1.8.7-p371-CVE-2012-4481.patch - Related: rhbz915379 1.8.7.352-9 - Fix regression introduced by fix for entity expansion DOS vulnerability in REXML https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7961...

ruby: Incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005 for NameError#to_s method when used on objects

The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.7 allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the NameErrortos method when operating on Ruby objects. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005...

PT-2013-1678 · Ruby +3 · Ruby +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Ruby version 1.8.7 Description: The safe-level feature in Ruby allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the NameErrorto s method when operating on Ruby objects. Recommendations: For Ruby version 1.8.7, at the moment, there is ...

Ruby incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005 for NameError#to_s method when used on objects

The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.7 allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the NameErrortos method when operating on Ruby objects. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005...

CVE-2012-4466

Ruby 1.8.7 before patchlevel 371, 1.9.3 before patchlevel 286, and 2.0 before revision r37068 allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe-level restrictions and modify untainted strings via the nameerrmesgtostr API function, which marks the string as tainted, a different vulnerability than...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : ruby (SAT Patch Number 5716)

This update of ruby provides 1.8.7p357, which contains many stability fixes and bug fixes while maintaining full compatibility with the previous version. A detailailed list of changes is available from http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v187357/ChangeLog . The most important fixes are : -...

CVE-2011-2686

Ruby before 1.8.7-p352 does not reset the random seed upon forking, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to predict the values of random numbers by leveraging knowledge of the number sequence obtained in a different child process, a related issue to CVE-2003-0900. NOTE: this issu...

CVE-2011-1005

The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-420, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-330, and 1.8.8dev allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the Exceptiontos method, as demonstrated by changing an intended pathname...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201001-09 (ruby)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 201001-09. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2010 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

CVE-2009-1904

The BigDecimal library in Ruby 1.8.6 before p369 and 1.8.7 before p173 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a string argument that represents a large number, as demonstrated by an attempted conversion to the Float data type...

CVE-2008-2664 ruby: Unsafe use of alloca in rb_str_format()

The rbstrformat function in Ruby 1.8.4 and earlier, 1.8.5 before 1.8.5-p231, 1.8.6 before 1.8.6-p230, 1.8.7 before 1.8.7-p22, and 1.9.0 before 1.9.0-2 allows context-dependent attackers to trigger memory corruption via unspecified vectors related to alloca, a different issue than CVE-2008-2662,...

ruby -- DNS spoofing vulnerability in resolv.rb

resolv.rb in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 before 1.8.6-p287, 1.8.7 before 1.8.7-p72, and 1.9 r18423 and earlier uses sequential transaction IDs and constant source ports for DNS requests, which makes it easier for remote attackers to spoof DNS responses, a different vulnerability than...