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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3157-1 (ruby1.9.1 - security update)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

9 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the interpreter for the Ruby language: CVE-2014-4975 The encodes() function in pack.c had an off-by-one error that could lead to a stack-based buffer overflow. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or arbitrary code execution. CVE-2014-8080, CVE-2014-8090 The REXML parser could be coerced into allocating large string objects that could consume all available memory on the system. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

Affected Software

Affected Software

ruby1.9.1 on Debian Linux

Detection Method

Detection Method

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.9.3.194-8.1+deb7u3. For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.5-1 of the ruby2.1 source package. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.5-1 of the ruby2.1 source package. We recommend that you upgrade your ruby1.9.1 packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)