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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1652-1] New ruby1.9 packages fix several vulnerabilitie

    From Moritz Muehlenhoff@1:229/2 to All on Sun Oct 12 12:00:18 2008
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1652-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff October 12, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : ruby1.9
    Vulnerability : several
    Problem-Type : local(remote)
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : CVE-2008-3655 CVE-2008-3656 CVE-2008-3657 CVE-2008-3790 CVE-2008-3905

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the interpreter for
    the Ruby language, which may lead to denial of service and other
    security problems. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
    identifies the following problems:

    CVE-2008-3655

    Keita Yamaguchi discovered that several safe level restrictions
    are insufficiently enforced.

    CVE-2008-3656

    Christian Neukirchen discovered that the WebRick module uses
    inefficient algorithms for HTTP header splitting, resulting in
    denial of service through resource exhaustion.

    CVE-2008-3657

    It was discovered that the dl module doesn't perform taintness
    checks.

    CVE-2008-3790

    Luka Treiber and Mitja Kolsek discovered that recursively nested
    XML entities can lead to denial of service through resource
    exhaustion in rexml.

    CVE-2008-3905

    Tanaka Akira discovered that the resolv module uses sequential
    transaction IDs and a fixed source port for DNS queries, which
    makes it more vulnerable to DNS spoofing attacks.

    For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
    version 1.9.0+20060609-1etch3. Packages for arm will be provided later.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
    version 1.9.0.2-6.

    We recommend that you upgrade your ruby1.9 packages.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/ruby1.9_1.9.0+20060609.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 4450198 483d9b46a973c7e14f7586f0b1129891
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/ruby1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 32500 f9ecc42746b8a277f0adf684db941813
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/ruby1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1102 d9f8325a51dc85e7a592135602aa5adb

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/rdoc1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 318568 8829c7b1dc51b1694ec44c22df0b9aa2
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/irb1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 255728 98a8ba887948dad97e365d6fe4cd7365
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/ruby1.9-examples_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 265788 baf95223f575afea5a19eda8931ab20f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/ruby1.9-elisp_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 229404 5fd60bd0423a2bf3e7b7d9f2fdbf50f8
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/ri1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 694282 195e55b70aaf9f35ff0b3156460c05a0

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/libdbm-ruby1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 217526 18e248f393c0157029127735d35ab58c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/ruby1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 237710 40f6ac2464dd488bcec0d9e705457071
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/libopenssl-ruby1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 324622 3daf8b07570c96d9575c851ab21deae3
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/libruby1.9-dbg_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 340188 8e9d2e6f51f659ad6df94a11961b6429
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/libruby1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1890052 15fa703f9493159f200bc8719305f8f7
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/libgdbm-ruby1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 216796 19318b591b6bce163cd767ccbc8e55a0
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/libtcltk-ruby1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1881332 5b980e23f25edf7bbc978bbdfb2ffa18
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/libreadline-ruby1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 217544 96ac4e52a0ddbf2a70ae8a49b8468338
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/ruby1.9-dev_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 961014 16b8cfc9ec220aed8a4a6d83b7a903f3

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/libreadline-ruby1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 216496 a612ba557549caf4ba25abe252da8568
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/libruby1.9-dbg_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 346006 8ea61f15325461d26752621150af4c55
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/libtcltk-ruby1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1878306 97b41d5d6a9d13ceab9139faf6ec9f36
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/ruby1.9/ruby1.9_1.9.0+20060609-1etch3_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 235552 8767d4d810273a9f0177a47a0a08c073

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