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ruby: certificate spoofing

Package(s):ruby CVE #(s):CVE-2009-0642
Created:July 20, 2009 Updated:December 8, 2009
Description: The ruby library does not properly validate X.509 certificates, enabling an attacker to use expired or invalid certificates.
Alerts:
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:325 2009-12-07
Debian DSA-1860-1 2009-08-12
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:193 2009-08-05
Ubuntu USN-805-1 2009-07-20
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