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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1860-1 (ruby1.8, ruby1.9)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

14 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to ruby1.8, ruby1.9 announced via advisory DSA 1860-1.

Insight

Insight

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2009-0642 The return value from the OCSP_basic_verify function was not checked properly, allowing continued use of a revoked certificate. CVE-2009-1904 An issue in parsing BigDecimal numbers can result in a denial-of-service condition (crash). The following matrix identifies fixed versions: ruby1.8 ruby1.9 oldstable (etch) 1.8.5-4etch5 1.9.0+20060609-1etch5 stable (lenny) 1.8.7.72-3lenny1 1.9.0.2-9lenny1 unstable (sid) 1.8.7.173-1 (soon) We recommend that you upgrade your Ruby packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201860-1

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)