Pardus alert 2011-101 (ruby)

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Meltem Parmaksız <meltem@pardus.org.tr> 
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[Pardus-security]  [PLSA 2011-101] Ruby: Denial of Service 
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Thu, 4 Aug 2011 14:26:19 +0300
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<201108041426.20058.meltem@pardus.org.tr>
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2011-101           security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2011-08-03
      Type: Local
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been fixed in ruby, which  can  be  used  by  local 
attacker to possibly cause denial of service. 


Description
===========

CVE-2011-2686: 

It was found that Ruby did not properly reinitialize the random  number 
generator, when forking new Ruby process. 


Affected packages:

  Pardus 2009:
    ruby, all before 1.8.7_p352-25-8
  Pardus 2011:
    ruby, all before 1.8.7_p352-26-p11


Resolution
==========

There are update(s) for ruby. You can update them via Package Manager or
with a single command from console: 

  Pardus 2009:
    pisi up ruby

  Pardus 2011:
    pisi up ruby


References
==========

  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=18694

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