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Ruby Multiple Vulnerabilities

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SA29794

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Release Date:

2008-04-16

Last Update:

2008-06-23

Popularity:

5,702 views

Critical:

Highly critical

Impact:

Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
System access

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

Ruby 1.8.x

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Solution:
Update to a fixed version.

Ruby 1.8.5:
Update to 1.8.5-p231.
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.5-p231.tar.gz
md5sum: e900cf225d55414bffe878f00a85807c

Ruby 1.8.6:
Update to 1.8.6-p230.
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.6-p230.tar.gz
md5sum: 5e8247e39be2dc3c1a755579c340857f

Ruby 1.8.7:
Update to 1.8.7-p22.
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p22.tar.gz
md5sum: fc3ede83a98f48d8cb6de2145f680ef2

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Luigi Auriemma
2, 3) The vendor credits Drew Yao of Apple Product Security.

Changelog:
2008-04-22: Added CVE reference.
2008-06-23: Added vulnerabilities #2 and #3 to the advisory. Increased criticality. Updated the "Solution" and "Original Advisory" sections.

Original Advisory:
1) http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/webrickcgi-adv.txt
2, 3) http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008...trary-code-execution-vulnerabilities/

Other References:
SA29232:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29232/

Change Page:
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