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Date:      Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:13:24 -0400
From:      Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@earthlink.net>
To:        Frank Steinborn <steinex@nognu.de>
Cc:        freebsd@auscert.org.au, ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, shaun@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Ruby vulnerability?
Message-ID:  <20060730141324.188a4a8e.bsd-unix@earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060730154733.83EE6B828@shodan.nognu.de>
References:  <200607280503.k6S53hmW007056@app.auscert.org.au> <20060729163453.GA89895@picobyte.net> <20060730154733.83EE6B828@shodan.nognu.de>

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On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:47:33 +0200
Frank Steinborn <steinex@nognu.de> wrote:

> Shaun Amott wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 03:03:43PM +1000, Joel Hatton wrote:
> > > 
> > > FYI, Red Hat released an advisory today about a vulnerability in Ruby. So
> > > far it doesn't appear in the VuXML, but am I correct in presuming it will
> > > soon?
> > > 
> > 
> > I've added it; thanks for the report.
> 
> Hmm, i saw the flaw with "portaudit -Fda" yesterday, however - today
> my ruby isn't shown as vulnerable anymore. Why?

I show it as a vulnerability here.  It could be that you may have
gotten your last update from a server that hasn't caught up yet.

Try running it again and see if that helps.

Randy

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