Bug 437366 – <dev-lang/ruby-{1.8.7_p371,1.9.3_p392}: incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1005 (CVE-2012-4481)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Hans de Graaff 2012-10-06 06:28:30 UTC]

"it was found that original upstream 1.8.x ruby patch for CVE-2011-1005
issue was not complete, when the NameError#to_s() method was used on /
with Ruby objects (the test logic in 'test_to_s_taintness_propagation'
test from [1] was actually reversed {Hint: Compare the test for Ruby
Object cases in both [1] and [2]}, so the test returned success also
on still vulnerable instances)."

[Comment 1 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) 2012-10-15 01:12:00 UTC]

Thanks for reporting, Hans.

[Comment 2 Hans de Graaff 2012-10-15 12:20:25 UTC]

dev-lang/ruby-1.9.3_p286 with a fix for this is now in the tree.

[Comment 3 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) 2012-12-16 20:58:10 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> dev-lang/ruby-1.9.3_p286 with a fix for this is now in the tree.

What about the 1.8 slot? It looks like dev-lang/ruby-1.8.7_p370 is still affected.

[Comment 4 Hans de Graaff 2012-12-17 07:07:10 UTC]

Ah, you are right. Due to the poor wording of the original oss-security email I never realized 1.8 was affected as well. I see upstream has release p371, so we should get that in the tree as well.

[Comment 5 Hans de Graaff 2013-01-06 14:16:31 UTC]

dev-lang/ruby-1.8.7_p371 is now also in the tree.

[Comment 6 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) 2013-03-03 21:35:03 UTC]

Arches, please test and mark stable:
=dev-lang/ruby-1.8.7_p371
Target KEYWORDS: "alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~sparc-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"

[Comment 7 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-03-04 09:01:05 UTC]

amd64 stable

[Comment 8 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-03-04 09:20:14 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 9 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-03-04 15:38:57 UTC]

Stable for HPPA.

[Comment 10 Brent Baude (RETIRED) 2013-03-04 18:34:42 UTC]

ppc done

[Comment 11 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-03-06 10:29:25 UTC]

sh stable

[Comment 12 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-03-08 17:22:19 UTC]

arm stable

[Comment 13 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-03-09 11:01:23 UTC]

ppc64 stable

[Comment 14 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-03-09 13:25:18 UTC]

alpha stable

[Comment 15 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-03-09 14:21:06 UTC]

ia64 stable

[Comment 16 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-03-09 19:38:14 UTC]

sparc stable

[Comment 17 Agostino Sarubbo 2013-03-10 16:18:57 UTC]

s390 stable

[Comment 18 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) 2013-03-16 11:34:41 UTC]

Added to existing GLSA draft.

[Comment 19 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2013-05-09 11:36:45 UTC]

CVE-2012-4481 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4481):
  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.

[Comment 20 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2014-12-13 19:23:34 UTC]

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201412-27 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-27.xml
by GLSA coordinator Sean Amoss (ackle).