SecurityAlert : 59 CVE : CVE-2005-2337 SecurityRisk : Medium (About) Remote Exploit : Yes Local Exploit : No Exploit Available : No Credit : Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen Published : 06.10.2005
Ruby is vulnerable to a security bypass of the safe level mechanism.
Background
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Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick and easy
object-oriented programming. Ruby supports the safe execution of
untrusted code using a safe level and taint flag mechanism.
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] or alternatively, you may
file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
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