Upstream information
Description
Ruby 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 (1) exc_to_s or (2) name_err_to_s API function, which marks the string as tainted, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4466. NOTE: this issue might exist because of a CVE-2011-1005 regression.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entry: 783511 SUSE Security Advisories:- openSUSE-SU-2012:1443-1, published Mon, 5 Nov 2012 17:08:36 +0100 (CET)
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0376-1, published Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:04:54 +0100 (CET)