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Date:      Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:49:48 +0400
From:      Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Shaun Amott <shaun@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Joel Hatton <freebsd@auscert.org.au>, ports@freebsd.org, Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ruby vulnerability?
Message-ID:  <44CBBBDC.70409@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060729180904.GA90113@picobyte.net>
References:  <200607280503.k6S53hmW007056@app.auscert.org.au> <20060729163453.GA89895@picobyte.net> <44CB99E4.2080708@FreeBSD.org> <44CBA0C8.3080605@FreeBSD.org> <20060729180904.GA90113@picobyte.net>

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Shaun Amott wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 07:54:16PM +0200, Remko Lodder wrote:
>> Sergey Matveychuk 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.
>>>>
>>> Can we get patches somewhere? I can't find any.
>>>
>> It is said that the patches are available through the CVSweb
>> but all the information I could fine was in japanese, which is
>> a bit difficult to read for me (read: i do not speak nor read
>> japanese at all).
> 
> The CVE report seemed to imply that there was a fix in 1.8.5, which I
> assumed had therefore been released. But it seems this isn't the case.
> 
> The Ruby folks say they don't publish advisories until there is a fix
> ready; and there is no mention of this vulnerability on the website.
> 

CVE report is very unpleasant: "Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities".
Secunia has more professional report.

RedHat is only vendor who released updates, but they are binary. So,
there is no known fix now.

I hope ruby team will release 1.8.5 ASAP.

-- 
Dixi.
Sem.



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