Synopsis: Moderate: ruby security update
Issue Date: 2011-06-28
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-1005
CVE-2011-0188
CVE-2011-1004
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Ruby is an extensible, interpreted, object-oriented, scripting language. It
has features to process text files and to do system management tasks.
A flaw was found in the way large amounts of memory were allocated on
64-bit systems when using the BigDecimal class. A context-dependent
attacker could use this flaw to cause memory corruption, causing a Ruby
application that uses the BigDecimal class to crash or, possibly, execute
arbitrary code. This issue did not affect 32-bit systems. (CVE-2011-0188)
A race condition flaw was found in the remove system entries method in the
FileUtils module. If a local user ran a Ruby script that uses this method,
a local attacker could use this flaw to delete arbitrary files and
directories accessible to that user via a symbolic link attack.
(CVE-2011-1004)
A flaw was found in the method for translating an exception message into a
string in the Exception class. A remote attacker could use this flaw to
bypass safe level 4 restrictions, allowing untrusted (tainted) code to
modify arbitrary, trusted (untainted) strings, which safe level 4
restrictions would otherwise prevent. (CVE-2011-1005)
Red Hat would like to thank Drew Yao of Apple Product Security for
reporting the CVE-2011-0188 issue.
All Ruby users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to resolve these issues.
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SL6
x86_64
ruby-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
ruby-docs-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
ruby-irb-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
ruby-rdoc-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
ruby-ri-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
ruby-static-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
i386
ruby-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
ruby-devel-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
ruby-docs-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
ruby-irb-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
ruby-libs-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
ruby-rdoc-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
ruby-ri-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
ruby-static-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
ruby-tcltk-1.8.7.299-7.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
– Scientific Linux Development Team
