suse · CVE-2012-4481

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:06:13 UTC Updated: 2025-11-05 05:34:01 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-4481 severity moderate: SUSE including 3 source package names (ruby-1.8.7.p357-0.9.15.6, ruby-doc-html-1.8.7.p357-0.9.15.6, ruby-tk-1.8.7.p357-0.9.15.6), 3 product×package rows across 1 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS): Fixed 3.

Description:

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

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