CVE-2013-2065

N/A Unknown

Published: November 02, 2013 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

(1) DL and (2) Fiddle in Ruby 1.9 before 1.9.3 patchlevel 426, and 2.0 before 2.0.0 patchlevel 195, do not perform taint checking for native functions, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass intended $SAFE level restrictions.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107064.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107098.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107120.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00057.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Vendor Advisory

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2035-1

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-2065

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/05/14/taint-bypass-dl-fiddle-cve-2013-2065/

Source: secalert@redhat.com

Exploit Patch Vendor Advisory

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/107064.html