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Debian Security Advisory DSA 537-1 (ruby)

Information

Severity

Severity

Low

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

2.1

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to ruby announced via advisory DSA 537-1.

Insight

Insight

Andres Salomon no ticed a problem in the CGI session management of Ruby, an object-oriented scripting language. CGI::Session's FileStore (and presumably PStore, but not in Debian woody) implementations store session information insecurely. They simply create files, ignoring permission issues. This can lead an attacker who has also shell access to the webserver to take over a session. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.7-3woody3. For the unstable and testing distributions (sarge and sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.1+1.8.2pre1-4. We recommend that you upgrade your libruby package.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20537-1

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