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ruby: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):ruby CVE #(s):CVE-2011-1004 CVE-2011-1005
Created:February 28, 2011 Updated:March 8, 2013
Description: From the Pardus advisory:

A symlink race condition vulnerability was found in FileUtils.remove_entry_secure. The vulnerability allows local users to delete arbitrary files and directories. (CVE-2011-1004)

Exception#to_s method can be used to trick $SAFE check, which makes a untrusted codes to modify arbitrary strings. (CVE-2011-1005)

Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2011:0908 2011-08-14
CentOS CESA-2011:0909 2011-06-30
Scientific Linux SL-ruby-20110628 2011-06-28
Scientific Linux SL-ruby-20110628 2011-06-28
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0910-01 2011-06-28
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0909-01 2011-06-28
Scientific Linux SL-ruby-20110628 2011-06-28
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0908-01 2011-06-28
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0561-1 2011-05-31
Fedora FEDORA-2011-1913 2011-02-21
Pardus 2011-49 2011-02-28
Mandriva MDVSA-2011:098 2011-05-23
Mandriva MDVSA-2011:097 2011-05-23
Ubuntu USN-1377-1 2012-02-27
Ubuntu USN-1583-1 2012-09-25
Fedora FEDORA-2012-15507 2012-10-14
Scientific Linux SL-ruby-20130307 2013-03-07
CentOS CESA-2013:0612 2013-03-09

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