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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-8736 (ruby)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-8736 2008-10-09 04:46:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : ruby Product : Fedora 8 Version : 1.8.6.287 Release : 2.fc8 URL : http://www.ruby-lang.org/ Summary : An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language Description : Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to new upstream release fixing multiple security issues detailed in the upstream advisories: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/08/multiple- vulnerabilities-in-ruby/ - CVE-2008-3655 - multiple insufficient safe mode restrictions - CVE-2008-3656 - WEBrick DoS vulnerability (CPU consumption) - CVE-2008-3657 - missing "taintness" checks in dl module - CVE-2008-3905 - resolv.rb adds random transactions ids and source ports to prevent DNS spoofing attacks http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/08/23/dos-vulnerabi... rexml/ - CVE-2008-3790 - DoS in the REXML module One issue not covered by any upstream advisory: - CVE-2008-3443 - DoS in the regular expression engine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Oct 8 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.287-2 - CVE-2008-3790: DoS vulnerability in the REXML module. * Sat Aug 23 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.287-1 - New upstream release. - Security fixes. - CVE-2008-3655: Ruby does not properly restrict access to critical variables and methods at various safe levels. - CVE-2008-3656: DoS vulnerability in WEBrick. - CVE-2008-3657: Lack of taintness check in dl. - CVE-2008-1447: DNS spoofing vulnerability in resolv.rb. - CVE-2008-3443: Memory allocation failure in Ruby regex engine. - Remove the unnecessary backported patches. * Tue Jul 1 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.230-4 - Backported from upstream SVN to fix a segfault issue with Array#fill. * Mon Jun 30 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.230-3 - Backported from upstream SVN to fix a segfault issue. (#452825) - Backported from upstream SVN to fix an integer overflow in rb_ary_fill. * Wed Jun 25 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.230-2 - Fix a segfault issue. (#452798) * Tue Jun 24 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.230-1 - New upstream release. - Security fixes. (#452293) - CVE-2008-1891: WEBrick CGI source disclosure. - CVE-2008-2662: Integer overflow in rb_str_buf_append(). - CVE-2008-2663: Integer overflow in rb_ary_store(). - CVE-2008-2664: Unsafe use of alloca in rb_str_format(). - CVE-2008-2725: Integer overflow in rb_ary_splice(). - CVE-2008-2726: Integer overflow in rb_ary_splice(). - ruby-1.8.6.111-CVE-2007-5162.patch: removed. * Tue Mar 4 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.114-1 - Security fix for CVE-2008-1145. - Improve a spec file. (#226381) - Correct License tag. - Fix a timestamp issue. - Own a arch-specific directory. * Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.8.6.111-9 - Autorebuild for GCC 4.3 * Tue Feb 19 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-8 - Rebuild for gcc-4.3. * Tue Jan 15 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-7 - Revert the change of libruby-static.a. (#428384) * Fri Jan 11 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-6 - Fix an unnecessary replacement for shebang. (#426835) * Fri Jan 4 2008 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-5 - Rebuild. * Fri Dec 28 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-4 - Clean up again. * Fri Dec 21 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-3 - Clean up the spec file. - Remove ruby-man-1.4.6 stuff. this is entirely the out-dated document. this could be replaced by ri. - Disable the static library building. * Tue Dec 4 2007 Release Engineering <rel-eng at fedoraproject dot org> - 1.8.6.111-2 - Rebuild for openssl bump * Wed Oct 31 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - Fix the dead link. * Mon Oct 29 2007 Akira TAGOH <tagoh@redhat.com> - 1.8.6.111-1 - New upstream release. - ruby-1.8.6.111-CVE-2007-5162.patch: Update a bit with backporting the changes at trunk to enable the fix without any modifications on the users' scripts. Note that Net::HTTP#enable_post_connection_check isn't available anymore. If you want to disable this post-check, you should give OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE to Net::HTTP#verify_mode= instead of. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #458948 - CVE-2008-3655 ruby: multiple insufficient safe mode restrictions https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458948 [ 2 ] Bug #458966 - CVE-2008-3657 ruby: missing "taintness" checks in dl module https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458966 [ 3 ] Bug #461495 - CVE-2008-3905 ruby: use of predictable source port and transaction id in DNS requests done by resolv.rb module https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461495 [ 4 ] Bug #459266 - CVE-2008-3443 ruby: Memory allocation failure in Ruby regex engine (remotely exploitable DoS) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459266 [ 5 ] Bug #458953 - CVE-2008-3656 ruby: WEBrick DoS vulnerability (CPU consumption) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458953 [ 6 ] Bug #460134 - CVE-2008-3790 ruby: DoS vulnerability in the REXML module https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460134 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ruby' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann... (Log in to post comments)
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