Symlink Attack

ruby is vulnerable to symlink attack. A race condition flaw was found in the remove system entries method in the FileUtils module. If a local user ran a Ruby script that uses this method, a local attacker could use this flaw to delete arbitrary files and directories accessible to that user via a...

Oracle Linux 6 : ruby (ELSA-2011-0910)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0910 advisory. - Address CVE-2011-1004 'Symlink race condition by removing directory trees in fileutils module' ruby-1.8.7-CVE-2011-1004.patch - Address CVE-2011-1005...

RHEL 5 : ruby (RHSA-2011:0909)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0909 advisory. - ruby WEBrick log escape sequence CVE-2009-4492 - Ruby WEBrick javascript injection flaw CVE-2010-0541 - ruby: memory corruption in...

CVE-2011-1004 Ruby: Symlink race condition by removing directory trees in fileutils module

The FileUtils.removeentrysecure method in Ruby 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-420, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-330, 1.8.8dev, 1.9.1 through 1.9.1-430, 1.9.2 through 1.9.2-136, and 1.9.3dev allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack...