CVE-2007-0469 (GCVE-0-2007-0469)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-01-24 01:00
Modified
2024-08-07 12:19
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The extract_files function in installer.rb in RubyGems before 0.9.1 does not check whether files exist before overwriting them, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files, cause a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code via crafted GEM packages.
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