CVE-2011-1005

Publication date

2011-03-02 19:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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 Exception#to_s method, as demonstrated by changing an intended pathname.