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Ruby Safe-Level Security Bypass and Server Classes Denial of Service

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SA16904

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Release Date:

2005-09-23

Last Update:

2006-04-26

Popularity:

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Critical:

Moderately critical

Impact:

DoS
Security Bypass

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

Ruby 1.6.x
Ruby 1.8.x

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Solution:
Update to the fixed versions.

Ruby 1.8.x:
Update to version 1.8.3.
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.3.tar.gz

Ruby 1.6.8:
Apply patch.
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.6/1.6.8-patch1.gz

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Dr. Yutaka Oiwa and Mr. Tanaka Tetsu, Research Center for Information Security, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

Changelog:
2005-10-07: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.
2006-04-26: Added information of additional vulnerability. Updated "Title", "Description", "Original Advisory" and credit sections.

Original Advisory:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/27787

JP Vendor Status Notes (Japanese):
http://jvn.jp/jp/JVN%2362914675/243894/index.html

Other References:
US-CERT VU#160012:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/160012

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