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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1139-1 (ruby1.6)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.4

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to ruby1.6 announced via advisory DSA 1139-1. It was discovered that the interpreter for the Ruby language does not properly maintain safe levels for aliasing, directory accesses and regular expressions, which might lead to a bypass of security restrictions.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.8-12sarge2. The unstable distribution (sid) does no longer contain ruby1.6 packages. We recommend that you upgrade your Ruby packages. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201139-1

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