Secunia reports:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Ruby, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.
- An error in the handling of the "alias" functionality can be exploited to bypass the safe level protection and replace methods called in the trusted level.
- An error caused due to directory operations not being properly checked can be exploited to bypass the safe level protection and close untainted directory streams.
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