# CVE-2005-2337: Ruby 1.6.x up to 1.6.8, 1.8.x up to 1.8.2, and 1.9.0 development up to 2005-09-01 allows attackers to bypass safe level and taint flag prote

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2005-10-07 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Ruby 1.6.x up to 1.6.8, 1.8.x up to 1.8.2, and 1.9.0 development up to 2005-09-01 allows attackers to bypass safe level and taint flag protections and execute disallowed code when Ruby processes a program through standard input (stdin).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17951
- http://secunia.com/advisories/16904
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1779
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10564
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_05_sr.html
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-132A.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22360
- http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2362914675/index.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-860
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17098
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17285
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/160012
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/59
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-864
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17147
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/May/msg00003.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19130
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14909
- http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Sep/1014948.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17129
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-799.html
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-05.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:191
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20077
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-195-1

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